[phobos] Initial Phobos style guide proposal

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 31 mar 2011, at 20:58, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 3/31/11 1:39 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> I would love that and think that it would be a _big_ improvement, but there
>>> are some folks (Andrei in particular) who seem to really not like code going
>>> beyond 80 characters. I do know that there are other Phobos devs who _do_ want
>>> longer line lengths though, so maybe we can change this. Where this really
>>> gets to be a problem is with lines with several levels of indentation, and
>>> trying to restrict the line length (particularly to something short like 80
>>> characters) tends to encourage overly short and non-descriptive variable and
>>> function names, which is _not_ good.
>> 
>> Can't everyone that likes to keep the horizontal length to 80 characters use word wrapping?
> 
> No, and please let's not take this one bit further.

So you just want to end the discussion when someone disagrees with you?

> Regarding this:
> 
>> I absolutely think that I function should fit within a page of code
>> but the way to do that is NOT to write more compact code vertically.
>> It's to split the function in several smaller ones, split the classes
>> in smaller ones and split the modules smaller ones. That is clearly
>> something that Andrei and Walter doesn't seem to understand.
> 
> I'd opine that it's a bit assuming. Essentially it says that people who don't code the way you like it are incapable of understanding elementary modularity.

I can not understand how anyone can call a module containing 25k+ lines of code modular.

> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei
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/Jacob Carlborg