By that argument, would lack of indentation qualify as consistent use?
Personally, I use what makes sense to me. I never focused on a particular style until I learned to write LPC, and I still write my Perl that way. (trust me -- it's better than how I learned to format Perl, as I came from a BASIC, Logo, Pascal and FORTRAN before that).
As things go, I think that screen size and editor choice play a rather significant role in what someone's preferred style. Someone who learned to program on a 12 line high screen, or through a dumb terminal is going to think differently than someone who started programming with a 21" monitor on their desk. Likewise, someone who started out in ex/ed, or some other line editor is going to work much different from someone who worked in DOS EDIT, or BBEdit, or whatever else the popular editors are these days.
I'm personally okay with just about anything, because I'll just reflow it. (which works up until I'm trying to submit patches, in which case I have to save my initial reformatted version, so I can diff that and the final, then re-apply the changes with the author's style of formatting back to the original. For the most part, I'm happy with whatever I'm given -- it's normally enough for me that people have gone out of their way to give their code at all, I'm not going to be overly picky about how many spaces are in it.
In reply to Re^2: A Question of style.
by jhourcle
in thread A Question of style.
by GrandFather
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