Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Curious compiler warning Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:02:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <9n64rgF40bU1@mid.individual.net> <1igsg7d3eggiptf23g9vd0flv19ghqs83d@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1326412960 15694 84.45.235.129 (13 Jan 2012 00:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:02:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11290 On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:18:57 -0800, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > Oh, my. Bad style. That is bad, isn't it? I am wearing a dark > grey sweater and medium brown pants. Is anyone's compiler concerned > about my style? > IMO the only egregiously bad style is not sticking to the style used by the original programmer when you're amending the program. In my book this is an invariant rule, no matter how obnoxious the original style is because doing anything else is sure-fire way to make even very ugly code much worse. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |