From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ell Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/09/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 390868070 References: <35DBDD24.D003404D@calfp.co.uk> <6sh3qn$9p2$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6simjo$jnh$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6sjk3p$4tc$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6skgn4$3gq$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6sm6md$3fh$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35f1375e.6237208@news.erols.com> <35F74AEC.21982C2B@oma.com> <6t937n$ep6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6telqi$aab$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@digex.net X-Trace: newsreader.digex.net 905743224 205.197.245.192 (Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:20:24 EDT) Organization: The Universe User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/4.1.4 (sun4m)) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:20:24 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ell wrote: >: For me, the reason it makes sense to simply take majority >: votes on style issues is that consistency is THE most >: important issue, much more important than the actual >: decisions (it's like driving, it really doesn't matter if >: you drive on the left or right, but it is really important >: to agree >Wrong headed pragmatism, pure and simple. > >It's ludicrous on the face of it to say all that matters is making a >decision, not the content of the decision itself. That's like saying >it's more important that we all decided to poison ourselves, rather than >questioning the whole decision. > > -- this observation thanks to Tarski :-) > >I'm not surprised. I would be ashamed of this not happy. Whoops sorry folks. I hadn't read that this was referring to "style". While I very much do think there are style basics that should be adhered to, I see where wide latitude should often be given style decisions - as long as for any given decision it applies project wide. There is the much vaunted "consistency" in this area. :-} Elliott -- :=***=: Objective * Pre-code Modelling * Holistic :=***=: Hallmarks of the best SW Engineering "The domain object model is the foundation of OOD." Check out SW Modeller vs SW Craftite Central : www.access.digex.net/~ell Copyright 1998 Elliott. exclusive of others' writing. may be copied without permission only in the comp.* usenet and bitnet groups.