The forked elephant in the room

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 03:17:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/16/2024 8:13 AM, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
>> The reason I don't want to contribute is because the standard 
>> isn't "Does it pass the tests it's supposed to pass?" and "Is 
>> it written in an idiomatic style?", the standard is instead 
>> the reviewer asking "Is the code written the way I would have 
>> written it?" I just don't have time for that.
>
> The larger a project is, the more useful a consistent style is 
> across it.
>
> Though dmd/phobos/druntime each have a different style to them, 
> as do the various other projects that are part of D.
>
> Or maybe you mean something else?

Any such rules need to be stated up front. If they're written 
down, I don't know where they are. Nobody wants to find out after 
the fact that their work will be rejected if they don't reformat 
it (as one simple example).