On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Larry Hastings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry@hastings.org">larry@hastings.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 01/02/2012 12:47 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:<br>
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Really? Do we need to have a brace war?<br>
People have different preferences.<br>
The standard library includes some of both styles<br>
depending on what the maintainer thought was cleanest to their eyes in a given context.<br>
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I'm with Raymond. Code should be readable, and code reviews are the best way to achieve that--not endlessly specific formatting rules.<br>
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Have there been bugs in CPython that the proposed new PEP 7 rule would have prevented?</blockquote></div><br>The irony is that style guides exist to *avoid* debates like this. Yes,
the choices are arbitrary. Yes, tastes differ. Yes, there are exceptions
to the rules. But still, once a style rule has been set, the idea is to stop debating and just code.<br><br>-- <br>--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido">python.org/~guido</a>)<br>