>>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>>>If I'm programming for you and I find it readable the other way, let me code it my way. That is the most productive I can be. Learning to change my practice to suit you slows me down and does not really help you.
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>>>>>>Hmmm. Given that most replies here preferred the second style: if you were working with them do you really think that overall productivity would be improved if you opted out of the consensus?
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>>>>>>Have you ever worked for a house that imposes standards?
>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>Viv
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>>>>>Yes. Hated it. One or more Nazis.
>>>>I didn't like it either but complete anarchy would have been worse. Twenty guys left to their own devices would come up with twenty different styles.
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>>>Beautify is your friend!
>>You don't know what I look like :-{
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>>But I was speaking in a more general sense - variable naming and declaration etc...
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>That does not fall under "style" in my mind. Variable naming has a direct impact on code behavior - causing or preventing crashes.

>White space has an indirect effect.

Variable naming has no effect - it's just style. Variable *scoping* OTOH....