Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Style Police (a rant) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:20:06 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7461 On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:56:40 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > Enforcing good style is difficult. I wish the purveyors of the >enforcement tools would realize it's beyond their powers to do it well. You might look at it like this. You complain your solar calculator keyboard is malfunctioning, and your partner says "Did you remember to plug it in?". It is not meant to tell you what to do, but merely to produce an abbreviated check list. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)