<div dir="ltr">Actually, reading this thread for me has shown me that one idea that I have been using is a lot more common that I had thought. The idea of naming the receives on an object with an "r" at the end (or whatever) to distinguish it from the send was something that I wasn't really sure if it was a "Pd Idiom" or not, and I really had no idea how to ask a question about it...<br>
<br>Mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM, marius schebella <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marius.schebella@gmail.com" target="_blank">marius.schebella@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:<br>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hallo,<br>
>> Luke Iannini hat gesagt: // Luke Iannini wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> There are some amazing sets of abstractions being released recently,<br>
>>> which has served to highlight the many extant styles of patching. I<br>
>>> was wondering if there was interest in establishing a set of<br>
>>> guidelines for patching in the vein of PEP 8 for Python; I've found<br>
>>> that document to be very relaxing as it is a standardized approach to<br>
>>> OCD. More seriously, it greatly helps when reading other people's<br>
>>> code or collaborating.<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/" target="_blank">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/</a><br>
>> I think, it would be important to first collect every possible style<br>
>> element in the wild and document what people are using in reality.<br>
>> That would be interesting. I'm not too much in favour of a style<br>
>> "guide"<br>
>> however. Let people be creative.<br>
><br>
> Nobody is talking about requirements. If you don't like style<br>
> guides, don't use them. But it is really not useful to squelch other<br>
> people's efforts, especially when you don't even have an intention of<br>
> using this stuff.<br>
<br>
</div>I actually liked frank's idea to collect different people's ideas and<br>
compare them. maybe there is some common sense in all of them?<br>
<font color="#888888">marius.<br>
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