Why?? (prog question)

[Lowell Gilbert]

Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> writes:
>> 
>>> The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project.
>> 
>> Or at *least* per file.
>
> Umm, no, per project.  Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29
> different styles.

If you write all your code from scratch, you can do that.  
I don't have experience with non-trivial projects that *don't* 
include substantial amounts of third-party code.  Reformatting
third-party code to fit your style is a mistake if you want to 
ever take another drop of that code.

When there's more than one style in a particular file, however, 
somebody needs to be slapped with a dead fish.