On 2011-09-20, at 9:51 AM, Robin Sheat wrote:
Op dinsdag 20 september 2011 04:18:02 schreef MJ Ray:
Probably. I dislike delegating this decision to an O'Reilly book
I prefer to delegate to Conway than some other arbitrary standard. The publisher is irrelevant.
So, why would it be worth changing the line length limits, indentation, outdentation, brace-tightness, and semicolon spacing to pbp?
Because: a) it's a standard that many perl editors understand, b) many perl programmers understand, c) it's less arbitrary than any other standard (as the reasoning is quite meticulously backed up), d) it's a pretty good standard, e) if you don't pick a standard then the code will continue to be quite ugly, and this is one we have now without years of quibbling over where braces should go, f) many people have access to the book and so can read the justifications if they wish.
There's probably more reasons I haven't thought of.
i know i just wrote a ranty reply to HDL's email before on this thread... :p but hey... Robin's above points are perfect -PBP is a standard, and AFAIK its the only meticulously reasoned Perl formatting standard there is if not -PBP, then what? Mason