[PEPr] Comment on RFC::Coding standard enhancements

Travis Swicegood (http://pear.php.net/user/tswicegood) has commented on the proposal for RFC::Coding standard enhancements. Comment: Sorry for coming to the party late, but I thought I would throw my two cents worth in. I have gone through periods where I have aligned function parameters and arrays for readability. I do like the output. Without fail, however, I end up having to modify 5 lines of code because I added one new key/value pair to an array where the key was 2 characters longer than the other keys. This messes up diffs and makes changes appear heavier than they are. Every time I have tried using alignment either in assigning values, arrays, or function calls, I end up reverting back to my old ways out of frustration. Maybe I just rewrite my code too often for it to be useful, but I would personally pull all references to alignment as they can get in the way and serve next to no valid purpose. In this instance, I'm balking at "readability" being a valid purpose as any decent IDE will give you much more usable UI into the code than any amount of formatting can. I do like the formalized indenting rules, however. I use those on a daily basis already, so having them becoming "official" would be nice. Another nice addition would be multi-line formatting and indenting of arrays (from my perspective without alignment, obviously). Having a trailing commas with the closing parenthesis would be nice as well as it helps keep the diff minimal. $some_array = array( 'foo', 'bar', ); Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=538 -- Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at http://pear.php.net