[phobos] lots of spurious code that doesn't work

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 22 January 2011 02:26:42 spir wrote:
> On 01/22/2011 04:48 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > I'd love to have a minimal stylistic checker upon checkin. For one
> > thing, I don't find any reason for two empty lines and I don't plan to
> > rearrange the monitor sideways for more vertical space.
> 
> Thought I was the only one caring for vertical space...

You can find just about as many preferences as programmers. Some programmers like 
lots of extra space (presumably so that the code is easier to read), whereas as 
others want as little extra space as posible (presumably seeing it as a waste of 
space and disliking the fact that they can then fit less code on the screen). 
Some programmers like to put spaces around parens. Some like to put them only on 
the inside of parens. Others don't like _any_ spaces around parens. Some 
programmers like opening braces on the same line as the preceding statement, 
whereas as others always want braces on their own line. Some programmers prefere 
camelcased variable names; others prefer names with embedded underscores.

I'm sure that there are styles which could be consider essentially objectively 
bad (such as putting 1000 spaces wherever you can legally put whitespace or 
never using any more whitespace then you have to, putting all of the code on a 
single line). However, generally-speaking, it's purely subjective and everyone 
is going to have their own opinion and preferences on the matter.

- Jonathan M Davis