Raphael Quinet said... | |I did not like the GNU style at first (especially the space before the |opening parenthesis) I still don't. Two spaces just isn't enough. Three or four is much better. And I like space before the paren only if it isn't after a function or procedure name. |but now I understand that it is very important to |keep a consistent coding style in each project, because it keeps the |code manageable and maintainable. So I always use whatever coding |style is recommended for the each project, even if this means that I |have to format my patches differently for the Gimp and for a Linux |driver, for instance. Since the Gimp uses the GNU style, I think that |it is important to follow the GNU coding guidelines faithfully. I use to feel this way. But now, so long as each file has a consisten, reasonable style (or preferably, package of files, say a directory), I'm happy. |While we are on the subject of coding style, there are two areas of |the Gimp that are not using a consistent coding style: the Script-Fu |scripts and, to a lesser extent, the Perl scripts. Is there a |recommended style for these? I handle perl as closely as possible to how I handle C. -Miles
