[PD] Idiomatic Pd
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Tue Jul 29 21:10:39 CEST 2008
On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:25 PM, marius schebella wrote:
> 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.
>
> I actually liked frank's idea to collect different people's ideas
> and compare them. maybe there is some common sense in all of them?
> marius.
Yeah, I think that was Luke's idea from the beginning. I agree that
it is a good one.
.hc
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