I think the particular choice of coding standards is low value, but I think the consistency they bring has a lot of value, at least potentially.

As a father of two boys myself, I know exactly where you're coming from. Like some adults, they'll argue over pointless details and miss the entire thrust of the discussion.

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moron4hire 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

No, to repeat what I said, I think "consistency" to a programmer is like "fairness" to a child: it's not what you think it is and it probably doesn't apply to whatever situation it's being invoked.

	▲	rpdillon 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Oh, interesting. > No, to repeat what I said, I think "consistency" to a programmer is like "fairness" to a child I tend to pride myself on my ability to read and comprehend things, and I feel like I never saw you say this. I see now it was an edit to an earlier comment that I didn't catch the meaning of. It seems to say that you think consistency is childish, maybe because it's a naive ideal of some kind? I value it highly, so your perspective is interesting (in the vein of "Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept. Seek it everywhere.") That aside, you're advocating for projects that have wildly different coding styles from file to file and function to function? I guess I've never really worked on a project like that. I can imagine it would feel very messy and would make manual refactors difficult but might not be such a problem for AI?
	▲	rpdillon 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Oh, interesting. So you're advocating for projects that have wildly different styles encoding from file to file? I guess I've never really worked on a project like that. I can imagine it would feel very messy and would make manual refactors difficult but might not be such a problem for AI?