Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I really cannot see where you got the impression that I'm squelching Luke's suggestion, when I briefly expressed a certain personal scepticism regarding style guides in two sentences of currently three much longer mails in this thread, which I considered to be
constructive, at least as brainstorming fodder or to give some motivations on how
and why my personal style evolved the way it did.From this sentence:
"I'm not too much in favour of a style "guide" however. Let people be
creative."Maybe I overreacted. I think there is a lot of negative tone on this
list, I am sure I have contributed to that as well. I think we
should encourage people to try things more than telling them its
wrong before they have started.Or maybe I'm just a fucking hippie... "peace 'n' love dude!"
Although I am more or less just a lurker on this list, and sometimes an asker of stupid questions, not to mention a person with too messy patches, I find the idea of a style guide very good, and here is my reasoning:
As most of us Pd users think of Pd as a programming language, then Pd should have one or more style guides just as any other programming language, so other people's patches (read: source code) are easy to read to you. You do not need to have a definite style guide, just as there are several indent styles for functional programming languages, there may be several styles for Pd programming, but guidelines for newbies are a Good Thing (tm), as you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Just my two cents, Thomas