Re: coding standards

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:29:46PM +0200, allan@lodestone.co.za wrote: > while we're on the subject of standards, what about the > > // {{{ myFunction() > > // }}} > > lines ? Most of the files use it, but not all. I'm not personally an emacs > user but I can see that leaving them in for emacs'ers would be a good idea - > this folding thing looks pretty funky. Hey, I may even become a convert :) > And to maintain a standard look across all the files I think we should have > them in as a standard. > I must say that I really, really, hate those function folding comments, and they set a precedent for the coding standard. They just decrease the readability of the code for those of us who don't use emacs. I mean, if PEAR is going to use those, why not put in vim-markup, or ^Ms so that people using Windows Notepad can read it more easily? PHP has extended well beyond UNIX now, into Windows-land, and it seems a bit silly to cater to one particular editor. Granted, this is getting into religious grounds, but can anyone object to just keeping the class format as simple as possible? It would make converting libraries from external -> PEAR format a lot simpler as well. However, if they have a use that I am unaware of, apart from emacs (perhaps to help phpdoc, or a phplint, etc), then I'd probably have less objection. -- Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>