On Thursday 2013-12-19 17:11 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > See, that right there is the root problem! Programmers tend to care > too much about their favorite styles. I used to be like that but > over the years I've mostly stopped caring about which style is > better, and what I want now is consistency, even if the code looks > ugly to *me*.
For what it's worth, I care about style as a measure of how careful people are -- both the patch submitters, and the original authors of the code. I tend to operate on the assumption that there's a correlation between how careful people are at following local style and maintaining consistent style, and how careful they are doing other more important things that led to the patch. Maybe that assumption is wrong, but I think I've been implicitly assuming that it's true for years. If we automated style, we'd lose that data, but we'd also save the time these careful people spend on getting code style right, so I guess it's probably a win. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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