[Dcphp-dev] Best Practices, Blest Schmacktices

[Keith Casey]

On 2/27/07, Aaron Brazell <abrazell at b5media.com> wrote:
> Exactly. I hate cluttered code and for "one line after the if" - and
> especially since I put curly braces on separate lines - extranneous curly
> braces make code looked cluttered.

Yes, they may be extraneous, but when you have 2, 5, 10, or 20 people
in the code, a few additional characters to add clarity never hurts.

> Besides, if we want to get into pet peeves, my biggest is people who use
> short tag syntax:
>
> <? echo "Hello World!"; ?>

That'd have to be my second one...  and it completely kills any
ability to work with XML.

So do any of you use tools, etc to perform these validations?

kc

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