On 9/10/13 3:09 AM, ishikawa wrote: > OTOH, code in a strange indentation is hard to touch: during linux > development around 2.1.1xx, Alan Cox got tired of the spaghetti code of SCSI > driver subsystem and introduced a revision: that revision consisted only of > sweeping reformatting of scsi subsystem files. No change except for > re-formatting. > It was felt the code could not be improved upon any more without such > re-formatting.
There are certainly times when reformatting (or refactoring) is needed and done. But they're generally exceptions. Developers need to be able to adapt to different code styles. At the very least, there will always be cases where a project imports an external library that uses a different style, where people are simply working on different projects with different styles. That's the relative landscape that has to be considered. Justin _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
