Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

[Nicola Pero]

> > >
> >
> > By the way the GNU coding standards are not bad, in fact I  
> > personally like
> > them (mostly because
> > my eyesight is really bad and whitespace is much more effective at
> > separating tokens than
> > brackets or commas).  There are some details I'd change, but they  
> > certainly
> > are not an unusual
> > or weird choice for a large free software project.
>
> To me it is about separating groups of tokens, e.g. if you are going
> to separate like this
>
> [thing foo: arg1 bar: arg2];
>
> and insist on including that space between the 'foo:arg1' group,
> the whole message send looks androgynous with parts of the selectors
> mixed in with their arguments...
>
> compared with
> [thing foo:arg1 bar:arg2];
>
> it is very easy for me to pick out which args go with which parts of
> the selector, and
> which message is being sent...

My personal preference is to do

 [thing foo: arg1  bar: arg2]

(Note the double-space between the two parts of the selector).

That way, I can easily visually tokenize it when I read it.

Of course, it's my personal preference and it's as good as any. ;-)

Thanks