Re: @property coding style

[Fred Kiefer]

On 28.01.2012 13:53, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 13:44, David Chisnall<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On 28 Jan 2012, at 12:34, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> > > Also, I feel more comfortable using my own coding style when it comes to
> > indentation and stuff like that. For libraries where I feel I might be
> > doing major contributions, can I use my own coding style, or am I
> > absolutely required to use the GNU coding style?
> >
> > More difficult to say.  The runtime uses the Étoilé coding conventions,
> > which are actually sane, but for any contribution to base or gui I try to
> > stick to writing obfuscated code^W^W^Wfollowing the GNU coding conventions.
> >
> > The most important thing is consistency within a project, so if the
> > library already uses one set of coding conventions then it's best to follow
> > it, rather than mix and match.
>
> I agree. But I feel Core Animation/QuartzCore and UIKit are separate
> libraries from -base, -gui, et al, so am I right to conclude I can use my
> style? :-)

You should just remember why we have a coding standard. It is so that 
different people can contribute to the same project without reformatting 
the whole code on each commit. And to make it easy to read the code 
independent of who wrote it.
I cannot imagine that it hurts your ego that much to stick to a common 
coding standard as it will hurt the library if you don't do. Please 
remember code gets read a lot more than it gets written and we should 
minimise the pain involved there. (or rather keep it on the same level 
for all our libraries :-)