Re: Alignment Nazi?
"Avdi Grimm" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Ged Byrne <[email protected]> wrote: > In some ways I prefer it when developers use their own style. It > allows you to gain an instinctive feel for who wrote what code. Of course, if you can consistently tell who wrote a given piece of code, it tends to indicate that you're not practicing collective code ownership. Having different parts of the codebase that are "owned" by different people - and hence only really understood by their owner - can be a maintainability problem. -- Avdi Home: http://avdi.org Developer Blog: http://avdi.org/devblog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/avdi Journal: http://avdi.livejournal.com