[OT] Auto code reformating / one coding style enforcment.

Dawid Ciężarkiewicz dawid.ciezarkiewicz at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 04:24:34 PDT 2006


Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Dawid Ciężarkiewicz wrote:
> 
>> My thoughts are always like this: why creators of C language allowed
>> people to format code freely? Wouldn't world be a better place if
>> languages would enforce their one-true-coding-style? If there would be no
>> choice there would be no reason to argue.
> 
> Because There Is More Than One Way To Do It (TIMTOWTDI) ?
> 
> I had my hard tabs at 4, because of my Macintosh upbringing,
> but in UNIX they have always been at 8 (so now I use spaces)
> 
>> [...]
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> I like choice.

You'd always had a choice of using (or not) language that enforces some
coding style.

> PS.
> I don't understand the "it would better if we only had one D compiler"
> or "it would be better if we only had one official GUI library" either.

Neither I do.



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