RE: [xml-dev] Convention versus standard

[Len Bullard <len.bullard@uai.com>]

And again if the difference is authority vs/or general consent, without a
metric for general consent, it is simply a convention which does not imply
good or bad.

Fun discussion but we are skirting the essential issue:  the means of
explicit documentation for agreement.   A set of conventions in no way
implies authoritative agreement.   A best practice implies someone or some
group deemed it 'best'.  So in that respect, until one has the metric, there
is no useful discrimination of best practice and convention.

len

From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@saxonica.com] 
 
> It is common practice for programmers to name variables in 
> numerous non-helpful ways, it is best practice to have a well 
> thought out naming scheme that allows those who maintain code 
> to know what a variable is to be used for, hopefully 
> achievable by following the coding styles for their languages 
> and organizations

My experience is that an intelligent programmer using their own common sense
will usually produce much more helpful variable names than a programmer who
is blindly following rules defined by some corporate style police.

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