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RE: Code formatting standards?

From: Robert Simmons <kraythe_at_arcor.de>
Date: 2004-09-25 02:17:41 CEST

Hmm. Well I'm something of a code fascist. I like nice solid code and I
don't think there is a reason to let it get hideous. Hideos code kills
products.

-- Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McClain Looney [mailto:mlooney@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 02:13
> To: users@subclipse.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Code formatting standards?
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> I agree, the formatting is a mess.
>
> Unfortunately, as I've learned from hard experience, a wholesale
> reformatting of a codebase causes massive pain down the road. History
> basically starts and ends the day that commit is made, since literally
> hundreds of meaningless diffs will be caused in the history of every
> source file.
>
> That, and eclipse doesn't provide an easy way of associating a format
> convention on a per-project basis. subclipse may want it one way, but
> cruisecontrol wants their code another way and so on, ad infinitum.
>
> despite the objections noted above, i'll be saying 0 to this if it
> ever comes up for a vote. i've been dealing with hideous code too long
> to be bothered by it now.
>
> ps. please direct queries of this nature to dev@subclipse.tigris.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Simmons <kraythe@arcor.de>
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:49:01 +0200
> Subject: Code formatting standards?
> To: users@subclipse.tigris.org
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> I was looking at the code for the decorators and the formatting makes
> one wince. Is there a set of standard settings for the subclipse
> project? If not Id like to suggest some. The prefs file is attached.
> All code should be formatted to the same standard. It's a pain to read
> 5 different coding styles all the time.
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> -- Robert Simmons Jr.
>
> -- Senior Software Architect, Consultant
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> Author of "Hardcore Java", Published by O'Reilly, ISBN: 0-596-00568-7,
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardcorejv
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> McClain Looney
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