On 7/24/08, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Obviously you can run your team the way you want to, but personally I prefer > to get all my developers singing from the same hymn sheet such that after a > couple of weeks they can go to any part of the code and not see a horrific > mess because they're used to the coding style and be able to conform to that > style when they make changes. Heh, I'd love to see you try to tackle the team I'm on. No matter how many times I show them things, no matter how many simpler methods of coding we provide (I have a custom library to make life easier) they still find new ways since PHP is so open to create obtuse and overengineered solutions for the simplest of things. It's a never-ending evolutionary process that will probably continue to be never-ending. > Any half-decent developer should be able to adopt any style they're told to. I never said the quality of developers I had to work with :p Most are decent in their respective fields, but PHP is new to most people here. It appears that most .NET/Microsoft style coders don't care about whitespace, tab however they wish, etc, even though VS editors try to help them, it always comes out with extra white noise. > Likewise they should be able to use any editor you tell them to, but even if > you would prefer to be flexible in the name of productivity there are very > few editors beyond Notepad that can't use a particular EOL and auto-strip > trailing spaces. As far as extra linefeeds "etc" that's all coming from the > developer unless you're using WYSIWYG editors. I've met far too many > developers who don't care about formatting their code and unless you slap > their nose for it they won't change. Eh, I've shown my way many times... it doesn't really help. Besides, most of the time I have to review this stuff anyway, or go back and fix bugs in it, so I'm already messing with the code to begin with. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
