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Re: What makes a comment "obnoxious"?

by shmem (Chancellor)
on Sep 08, 2007 at 15:13 UTC ( [id://637839]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What makes a comment "obnoxious"?

de gustibus non est disputandum.

"obnoxious" is what is obnoxious to you - the personal preferences of the authors of Perl::Critic, or of Damian Conway, need not be your own.

Your post makes me give another downvote to Perl::Critic. Enforcing a personal comment style and claiming it to be Best Practice? That's hubris at it's worst, and plain silly. Blech...

I read the title ever as "Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices", although I wished many of his advices were followed by every coder. But then there are some rules...

update: corrected inflexion and typo (missing s)... thanks blazar.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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Re^2: What makes a comment "obnoxious"?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 09, 2007 at 16:57 UTC
    Your post makes me give another downvote to Perl::Critic. Enforcing a personal comment style and claiming it to be Best Practice? That's hubris at it's worst, and plain silly. Blech...

    Since all Perl::Critic policies can be switched on/off and have various different levels - and can be ignored on a case by case basis... I fail to see the "enforce"...

      Well, there's no enforcement whatsoever in Perl::Critic, since not using it isn't illegal.

      But changing "Enforcing a personal comment style" to "Making a personal comment style a policy" doesn't make things better, really.

      --shmem

      _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                                    /\_¯/(q    /
      ----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
      ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
        But changing "Enforcing a personal comment style" to "Making a personal comment style a policy" doesn't make things better, really.

        It's optional. If you don't like it - switch it off.

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