Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3A4B9FB8.AFD69726@acm.org>, Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> writes:

> The method you propose would work, provided that all programmers on a
> project correctly capitalized (according to project norms) their first use
> of an identifier or, as you say, create a single file that contains the
> most common acronyms, etc. It doesn't work the instant someone violates the
> conventions on a first occurence.

No, that is the point at which it _does_ work, by making it obvious at
_all_ instances (to a caring human) that a correction is needed.