Re: Implementation Inheritance

Hendrik Maryns <hendrik_maryns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting, I didn't know this document. Though you'll have to agree
that there are a lot of different conventions around. There are even
three code formatting styles preprogrammed in Eclipse.

Incidentally, there's quite a big difference between naming conventions
and formatting conventions. The latter can reasonably be said to be the
business of yourself and the rest of your programming team... although
it's still the business of others, of course, if you're asking them to
read your code on newsgroups. Other than that, what matters is only
being consistent with yourself, and readable.

Naming, conventions, though, are different. The entire Java API is
defined with a certain naming convention, and it's ridiculous to ignore
that and define one's own style. The result would be just a hodgepodge
of different styles depending on the source of an identifier.

In this case, what's being discussed is formatting, so only readability
and internal consistency really matters too awfully much. In fact,
IchBin's reformatted code didn't match the recommendations from the
posted coding standards document. I'm of the opinion that IchBin's
stile is actually more readable than the "standard" style, which would
be to hide opening braces at the end of the previous line.

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