[Zope3-dev] Should major for-reaching changes be made for purposes of style?

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Thu Sep 1 15:42:47 EDT 2005


Jim Fulton wrote at 2005-8-31 17:05 -0400:
> ...
>I'm interested in hearing what people think about this in general.
>Should we make far reaching code changes to enforce a consistent
>style?  Or should we update style when making other changes?
>I tend to do the later.  I think that the developers of Python
>prefer that changes like this be made more gradually. They've
>been burned by mass changes in the past.
>
>Thoughts?

I am not very concerned about style (in foreign code).
Well chosen "speaking" names are much more important
than style aspects.

Consequently, I would make style changes gradually (if at all).

-- 
Dieter


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