Subject: Re: policy -- taking the code guidelines seriously
From: William Lachance (wlach@interlog.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 16:49:53 CDT
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 13:35, Paul Rohr wrote:
> Read them, believe them, live them:
>
> abi/docs/AbiSourceCodeGuidelines.abw
>
> Really! They're short and they help a *lot*. We try to avoid putting
> arbitrary rules and practices here [1], so stuff that does make the cut
> should be taken very seriously.
>
> I say this even though I'm on record as *opposing* one or two recent
> proposals to extend these guidelines.
Hey,
Before I begin:
*PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO START A FLAMEWAR ON CODING STYLE ON
THE LIST. THAT ISN'T MY INTENTION HERE*
I've tried to mostly conform to these guidelines when writing my wordperfect
importer. However, I really strongly take exception to using Hungarian
notation in my code. Is this really a necessary part of the guidelines? I
notice that most of the new code in the importer/exporter directory doesn't
even use it. Perhaps it's time to take it out of the guidelines for new
submissions?
Note: I'm not necessarily proposing that we rewrite all of abi's source to
not have hungarian..
-- William Lachance wlach@interlog.com http://www.interlog.com/~wlach
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