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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dragging the legacy users forward.
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

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Lester Caine wrote on 09/02/2015 01:31:
> On 09/02/15 00:05, Rowan Collins wrote:
>>> >>Some of the new 'styles' of writing things are
>>> >>going to make things considerably worse for those who are going to have
>>> >>to maintain this code   in the future.
>> >
>> >If you're writing code that you know will be hard to maintain in the
>> >future, you're doing something wrong. If by slavishly following a style
>> >guide you've ended up with a poor architecture, you need a better style
>> >guide, or a better understanding of why those styles are preferred.
>> >
>> >Alternatively, I may have misunderstood that sentence, in which case I
>> >apologise in advance.
> Something*I*  have been asking for for the last few years IS a better
> 'style guide' ... There are a growing number of 'styles' and the current
> debate is to allow even more! Just about every framework has a different
> style of handling database abstraction, and that seems to change every
> major version as well. All of my own code is based around ADOdb, but now
> it seems THAT is not an acceptable style of code these days.

This is true of pretty much every language under the sun, and isn't 
really relevant to the internals of the language. It's about finding 
books, websites, libraries, and experts who you trust and agree with on 
matters of opinion and prediction. PHP-FIG is working on standardising 
some aspects, but others will always be a matter of fashion and taste.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]

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