[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Please vote!

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:13:50PM CET, I got a letter,
where Andrew Sutton <ansutton@xxxxxxx> told me, that...
> On Monday 03 December 2001 11:02 am, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Yes, but I wouldn't be so pedantic, and if it doesn't really violate the
> > rules a lot, I would accept it anyway. General rule should be that 'it is
> > reasonably readable', that means the code is understandable. Then someone
> > else who is unhappy with minor violence with the rules may go and clean it
> > up even more, however this can do nearly anybody then, when he knows what
> > the code does and it's sufficiently commented. The guys who are actually
> > able to decrypt the code and convert it to *anything* understandable aren't
> > very frequent here, so they should be really used to decrypting the code,
> > and not to spend their time with useless complaints and arguing about "if
> > (bla ||\n vs. if (bla\n ||". Once the code is readable, everyone can do
> > that. Not everyone can be able to get the code into readable state.
> 
> the rationalization behind code nazism is to make all the code look the same. 
so don't accept patches which will make the code readable and understandable,
and they will help making it same, but won't make it exactly same, leaving this
work to further time for someone more bored than the author of patch was?

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