[petsc-dev] I hate this one

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Again, there are limits to everything, and this surpasses the useful
>> limit to this kind of specification. This is not personal expression, this
>> is ease of reading.
>>
>
> If it's significant enough to affect ease of reading, then it's
> significant enough to specify. Most coding guidelines have adopted the form
> that Barry likes. _You_ are now advocating unconventional formatting on the
> grounds that it's easier for you to read, without regard for what anyone
> else finds easier to read.
>

Again, the data does not support you. An incredible number of instances,
and almost all files were changed. Thus,
this was far from "unconventional".

_You_ are not even entertaining the possibility that small variability in
source can be tolerated. That is incredibly close minded.

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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