Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Why not just: "The code should follow whatever is considered to be good practice, unless there are reasons to do it some other way". Wikipedia software isn't any special, so it doesn't need any special coding rules. And 78 chars / line was important 10 years ago, but is seriously too small for year 2003. Come on, we're all using hardware that easily allows over 120 chars per line, not ?
I like sometimes to print a piece of code. Without reformating it. And of course, it was only an example. Nothing we realy have to do.
I'm more interested in things like those I mailed some weeks ago: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2003-June/004376.html (still unanswered, of course ;)
Or the policy should clear the topic of a ''code freeze'', which is never lifted, but nobody seems to remember that.
All this are proposals, of course. And I certainly don't start editing the policy on meta whitout a few comments from others here.