Re: Alignment Nazi?

Advi,

To be honest, it doesn't allow you to identify the author that well.

The code I've dealt with has been old legacy code in Visual Basic.  As
the code passed from one developer to another, the change of coding
style is like the rings in a tree trunk.  By the end I could easily
tell roughly how old code was, and where parts of it had been
reworked.

I've never met those programmers, but I have a good idea of what there
style and approach was.  All very intuitive, but useful anyway.



On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Avdi Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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