Re: coding standards

Vim is supposed to support Emacs style folding in the next version. I know its ugly but it sure is handy (as exampled by a similar feature in Homesite). -Darrell Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > 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> > > -- > PHP Extension and Add-on Repository (PEAR) mailing list. > Documentation can be found at http://pear.php.net/doc/pear.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-pear-unsubscribe@lists.php.net from the > mail address you subscribed with. -- Darrell Brogdon http://darrell.brogdon.net Web Developer - SourceForge http://sourceforge.net VA Linux Systems, Inc. http://www.valinux.com