Coding style is a subjective topic, and that's why discussing which one
works best is completely pointless, since it's a matter of preferences.
It's like discussing what is the best color.
What is important is consistency, and that's why all the new code
proposed for merging should follow
You're right Craig, although there's something I still don't
understand: Why would somebody want elementary to adapt his/her coding
style.
It's fine if developers focus on the logic first, using their own
coding style, but as a final step those developers should also make
sure that their
And that's why I use an editor that formats certain things about code for
me.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Craig webe...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you misunderstand me. A prettifier doesn't force the user's style
on the project, but it changes the format of the pushed code to match that
That's great. It seemed as though you were against a prettifier when you've
been using one all along! The next logical step is to migrate to a
dedicated tool (one that is not bound to a certain editor) so users are
free to use the editor of their liking.
If such a tool is available (and is
I'm not against prettifiers, I just don't see the need for something like
gofmt that aligns comments, indents with tabs and supposedly fixes
everything.
I'm sure vala-analyzer is good for what we need now and we have other
priorities now, but maybe one of these days somebody makes a prettifier,
I'm not arguing that gofmt is necessary; anything that facilitates a
standard, clear format will suffice. However, I maintain that the vala
community would be lucky to have so nice a tool as gofmt. (It really does
fix everything) :-P
On Apr 1, 2013 4:34 PM, David Gomes da...@elementaryos.org
I'm afraid automatic prettifiers are a terrible idea because blindly
restyling the code usually makes it lose any remains of readability it used
to have. In other words, automatically restyled code is even less readable
than code with a foreign coding style.
2013/3/31 David Gomes
How do you figure? The go language community uses one and they rave about
it. We use them at work (c++) as well and its uses an obnoxious style, but
it's still more readable than a dozen different conventions.
On Mar 31, 2013 5:39 AM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
ser...@elementaryos.org wrote:
I'm
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