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[Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

The more I read threads like this the more it seems elementary should
migrate to Go. :-P
On Apr 1, 2013 3:29 AM, "Jaap Broekhuizen" <jaapz.b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree with Victor. Consistency matters because it makes readability and
> therefore maintainability better.
>
> --
> Jaap
> Op 1 apr. 2013 09:09 schreef "Victor" <victoreduardm@xxxxxxxxx> het
> volgende:
>
>> 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 elementary's coding style guidelines
>> (which are not published anywhere in the site as far as I know). Whenever
>> you propose code that is styled inconsistently it only gives the impression
>> that you were coding in a hurry, and we don't want to accept that kind of
>> code, even though we have a ton of it already.
>>
>> Thanks for your attention,
>> Victor.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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" <
>> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> I wrote this in order to check for code style errors, but it's not
>>>> perfect it's just a help-tool:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/elementary/vala-analyzer
>>>>
>>>> We have 'considered' using a prettifier too, but I just use Emacs to
>>>> fix some stuff on my code - a prettifier script would be too much work and
>>>> I don't know of any libraries that would help me with the task.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Good work David. Have you (elementary) considered using a prettifier
>>>>> to standardize a code style upon pushing to your trunk?
>>>>>  On Mar 28, 2013 7:17 PM, "Cody Garver" <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Cool, it's pretty thorough.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:58 AM, David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19899464/reviewstutorial.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello guys,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From time to time somebody still has doubts on how to use Launchpad
>>>>>>> and Bazaar to review and merge branches to trunk so I wrote a tutorial.
>>>>>>> Note though that it may need expansion.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Many times, even experienced developers who have been in the Apps
>>>>>>> Team for a long time make mistakes so even if you already know how to do
>>>>>>> it, reading the tutorial won't hurt.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I also recommend that all developers that in the future are to join
>>>>>>> the Apps Team read this several times because even though we can always
>>>>>>> revert messed-up commits, it's better to do it right at the first time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes
>>>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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