Notes on the Phobos style guide

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Aug 16 17:00:32 PDT 2010


Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Obviously, in my own code, I'm just going to code the way that I like, and I see 
> no point in any kind of standard D style guide with regards to braces and other 
> visual elements to relate primarily to how the code looks rather than what it 
> does.

True, but the idea of having a D style guide goes beyond just having a standard 
for Phobos. It fills a vacuum. When there is a reasonable existing one, lots of 
organizations will simply adopt it by default rather than go to the trouble of 
reinventing their own.


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