Formatting code… you do you, I’ll do me
There’s a guy hijacking the comments section at a popular WordPress plugin site to promote his opinion on code formatting.
Sets my teeth on edge it does!
Here’s some basic rules:
- He or she who writes the code calls the formatting. Unless…
- Code contributed to a larger project should adhere to the project’s formatting, and …
- If you’re writing the checks, you get to specify the formatting system.
Super easy!
I had to let a coder go once because that person insisted on using an outre formatting system (for c++), and the code wasn’t good enough for me to deal with it. That is, I needed to rewrite and reorganize the code after delivery. Extensive discussion resulted in more extensive discussion… waste of time.
Note: Whenever possible, I site read code, so I depend on the geometric shape of code blocks to give me information. That’s me, that’s what I do. You can do whatever you want.