Phango - questions

[Bill Baxter]

Kris wrote:
> "Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote
>> On 11/18/07, Kris <foo at bar.com> wrote:
>>> Dash it all. This is what I meant to write:
>> Phew! OK, I'm happy now. :-)
>> Thanks for clearing things up.
> 
> Sure, no problem. Now, perhaps you will address the questions asked 
> previously? I'll list them here for your convenience:
> 
>> Seriously - Tango's stylistic issues are a big turn-off. Tango
>> folk,when you complete your integration with Phobos, please, please
>> fix them.
> 
> Please suggest an alternate formatting style and explain why it is better.
> 
> 
>> So Tango should really follow convention used by Walter in Phobos.
> 
> What if that convention proves insufficient for a library that is much
> larger than Phobos?

It seems to me the burden should be on the Tango developers here, as the 
newcomers, to explain to the world why the Tango convention is better, 
rather than asking everyone else to justify why the pre-existing and 
already established convention is better.

The Tango convention may be better for all I know, but I don't recall 
hearing any compelling arguments in favor of why a change was needed. 
If they were given and I just forgot them, then sorry.  I do recall 
hearing unsubstantiated claims like "we found it was better" or "we 
found the phobos convention to be insufficient" etc, but I don't recall 
any actual good arguments that made me go "hmm ah, yes indeed".  Anyway 
given that this topic continues to come up, it seems it would be a good 
idea to collect all these reasons on a page over at tango.dsource.org.

--bb