[webkit-dev] take 2: unwritten rules of webkit style

[Gavin Barraclough]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Peter Kasting wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:43 AM, David Levin wrote:
>
>> There should only be a single space before end of line comments. An  
>> exception is if one is lining up several end of line comments.
>
> I don’t think we should have this exception.
>
> Things manually lined up in source code generally create a small  
> maintainability problem. You can’t rename things without re-lining  
> things up, and if you make other types code changes without noticing  
> the lined-up comments the code ends up looking messy an peculiar.
>
> The common place to do this is on a set of constants/enum values,  
> where I don't think the objections you raise are a big deal.

I don't think we normally allow an exception for this.

(Personally I'd quite like it if we did, I prefer to constants aligned  
as you suggest – but rules is rules & this has not been allowed for me  
in the past).

G.

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