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recommend astyle as indent tool Re: coding conventions
Artistic Style
A Free, Fast and Small Automatic Indentation Filter
for C , C++ , Java Source Codes
by Tal Davidson, Israel (E-mail: davidsont@bigfoot.com)
Main home Page http://astyle.sourceforge.net
Project Page http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/astyle


I think pretty-print source code will make other developers read code more efficiently.

Che, Dong

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Cutting" <cutting@lucene.com>
To: "Lucene Developers List" <lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 5:47 AM
Subject: coding conventions


> Scott Ganyo wrote:
> > Nevertheless, I'm willing to accept that you have defined it as "Lucene
> > standard style" and I do abide by it when developing Lucene...
>
> I don't think style should be (or even can be) mandated. When writing
> new code from scratch, a developer should of course try use a style that
> is not egregiously different than that of the code that it's destined to
> join, but he or she doesn't have to rigidly adhere to an identical
> style. When editing existing code, a good-faith effort should be made
> to adhere to its existing style. That's just good manners.
>
> In general, we should respect the styles of other developers, and hope
> in turn that they will respect our style choices. I don't mind a
> project with a variety of styles: the personality of the developer
> should show in the code. I don't even mind a class with different
> methods coded in different styles if they were written at different
> times and/or by different developers.
>
> So I don't think there is a "Lucene standard style". There's my style,
> which accounts for a lot of the code because I wrote a lot of the code.
> But, for example, the German analyzer, which I did not write, is in a
> different style. That's not mayhem, it's just tolerance of diversity.
>
> Doug
>
>
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Re: recommend astyle as indent tool Re: coding conventions [ In reply to ]
I agree, but this tool seems to help with indentation only, but there a
number of other rules that one may want standardized.
Anyhow, I think this discussion about people's favourite source code
formatting tools is probably boring to most people here :)

Otis


--- Che Dong <chedong@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Artistic Style
> A Free, Fast and Small Automatic Indentation Filter
> for C , C++ , Java Source Codes
> by Tal Davidson, Israel (E-mail: davidsont@bigfoot.com)
> Main home Page http://astyle.sourceforge.net
> Project Page http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/astyle
>
>
> I think pretty-print source code will make other developers read code
> more efficiently.
>
> Che, Dong
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Cutting" <cutting@lucene.com>
> To: "Lucene Developers List" <lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 5:47 AM
> Subject: coding conventions
>
>
> > Scott Ganyo wrote:
> > > Nevertheless, I'm willing to accept that you have defined it as
> "Lucene
> > > standard style" and I do abide by it when developing Lucene...
> >
> > I don't think style should be (or even can be) mandated. When
> writing
> > new code from scratch, a developer should of course try use a style
> that
> > is not egregiously different than that of the code that it's
> destined to
> > join, but he or she doesn't have to rigidly adhere to an identical
> > style. When editing existing code, a good-faith effort should be
> made
> > to adhere to its existing style. That's just good manners.
> >
> > In general, we should respect the styles of other developers, and
> hope
> > in turn that they will respect our style choices. I don't mind a
> > project with a variety of styles: the personality of the developer
> > should show in the code. I don't even mind a class with different
> > methods coded in different styles if they were written at different
>
> > times and/or by different developers.
> >
> > So I don't think there is a "Lucene standard style". There's my
> style,
> > which accounts for a lot of the code because I wrote a lot of the
> code.
> > But, for example, the German analyzer, which I did not write, is
> in a
> > different style. That's not mayhem, it's just tolerance of
> diversity.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> > --
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> <mailto:lucene-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org>
> > For additional commands, e-mail:
> <mailto:lucene-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org>
> >
> >
>


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