Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> Hallo,
>> Luke Iannini hat gesagt: // Luke Iannini wrote:
>>
>>> There are some amazing sets of abstractions being released recently,
>>> which has served to highlight the many extant styles of patching. I
>>> was wondering if there was interest in establishing a set of
>>> guidelines for patching in the vein of PEP 8 for Python; I've found
>>> that document to be very relaxing as it is a standardized approach to
>>> OCD. More seriously, it greatly helps when reading other people's
>>> code or collaborating.
>>>
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
>> I think, it would be important to first collect every possible style
>> element in the wild and document what people are using in reality.
>> That would be interesting. I'm not too much in favour of a style
>> "guide"
>> however. Let people be creative.
>
> Nobody is talking about requirements. If you don't like style
> guides, don't use them. But it is really not useful to squelch other
> people's efforts, especially when you don't even have an intention of
> using this stuff.