Re: Using Arrays and Collections

From:
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
21 Mar 2007 22:13:21 GMT
Message-ID:
<convention-20070321225243@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> writes:

It's dead certain that I'll never use the vile Sun-style layout
in Usenet posts. My reasons are -- in my considered opinion --
more than sufficient. Why should Stefan see the matter any
differently ?


  Sometimes, it is difficult to tell whether you are doing the
  right thing in spite of a crowd of mislead people trying to
  lead you astray or whether you are doing the wrong thing in
  spite of a crowd of fine people trying to show you the way: In
  both cases you find yourself on the other side, and no general
  rule (such as ?Always ignore criticism.? or ?Always do as the
  crowd.?) is always right.

  If I am writing code as an employee, I surely will have to
  follow the employers coding conventions. In the Usenet, I am
  writing in my leisure and solely for my personal fun. So, in
  this case, I feel free to format the source code as I please.

  However, I do not whish to offend anyone. If my newsreader
  would be able to automatically reformated included source
  code to Sun's Convention when sending a posting, I would
  enable this, to please people. But not having this, I do
  not want to do extra effort.

  Here are quotations of people with some trust in ?their way?:

      ?And do it your way...it's the only way.?
    Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Tarkus

      ?There are so many people, and I can't please
      them all, so I better might please nobody?
    Bob Dylan (from my memory, can't find the source)

      ?If I had a motto, it would probably be herd thither, me hither.?
    Erik Naggum
http://ungregarious.org/2004/

      ?I think the most important characteristic of an
      entrepeneur is that they're going to do it whether you
      give them permission or not.?
    Eric Schmidt
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-03-20-n29.html

  But then, the last attribute might also apply to a criminal.

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