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in thread Should We Have A "Red Flags" Area?

I'd like to see a Red Flags area — or at least a series of Meditations along those lines — for exactly that reason. I think it'd be quite useful for us to declare our biases and preferences wrt. coding style and "dangerous practices", and refute/bitch about others' biases and preferences. If nothing else, having to defend our beliefs would make us think about why we like what we do, and would give us at least a bit of insight into coding practices.

In my opinion, that's a win.

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Re^3: Should We Have A "Red Flags" Area?
by LAI (Hermit) on Feb 17, 2003 at 15:29 UTC

    Thing is, "Red Flags" sounds too canonical. It sounds like "these are thing that may be empirically shown to be dangerous or wrong much of the time". If we want to write about our own coding styles, our biases and preferences, the way maybe we love to have dozens of variables like $user_address_streetaddress1 around, or the way we love to have pairs of parallel arrays instead of hashes... well, we've got Meditations, home nodes and scratchpads, Obfuscation, the CB, and other places depending on the specific bent of the rant.

    It seems to me wasteful and counter-productive to create a new section dedicated to "this is the way I like to do stuff, and you ought to as well." Already that list of links at the top of the page is kind of expansive; I wouldn't think a listing of "Red Flags" would be of enough benefit to warrant the creation of an entire section for it.

    LAI
    :eof

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