[Python-Dev] PEP 7 clarification request: braces (original) (raw)
Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jan 3 19:42:43 CET 2012
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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Matt Joiner writes:
> Readability is the highest concern, and this should be at the > discretion of the contributor. That's quite backwards. "Readability" is community property, and has as much, if not more, to do with common convention as with some absolute metric. The "contributor's discretion" must yield.
Readability also includes more than just the source code; as has already been stated:
if(cond) { stmt1;
- stmt2; }
vs.
-if(cond) +if(cond) { stmt1;
- stmt2; +}
I find the diff version that already had braces in place much more readable.
Ethan
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