Exceptional coding style

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2013-58-15 11:01, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 11:24 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Quite a nice read on the coding style used in Doom.
>>
>> http://kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code?post=56177550
>
> On the other hand I don't like some parts of the style he is putting
> forward as good.
>
> Go has an extreme position on this, there is one and only one style of
> code that is acceptable, the one defined in the gofmt program that is
> used to format all Go code. I happen not to like some parts of it, but I
> live with the enforced style.
>
> Python is less extreme, in that there are many styles of code allowed,
> but there is PEP-8 which is "Python style as Guido intended".  This is
> supported by the pep8 program for enforcing elements of style. I have
> disagreement with some of the choices, but I live with it, and format my
> code to PEP-8 except for the line length rule – which is just so 1980s.
>
> C, C++, D, Fortran, Groovy, probably need to learn a lesson from one or
> other of these.
>
> The issue is that having a single global style standard for a
> programming language makes it easier to read code in that language.

I agree a canonical form could be nice. Even so, I am firmly of the
opinion that such should not be forced upon programmers. Prettifiers
certainly can help here.

-- 
Simen