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Universal problem (Score:1)

by ChrisDolan (2855)

I'm convinced that there is no "right" solution to this problem. Perl::Critic has the same issues, as does the CPANTS Kwalitee game. Coverity, FindBugs, PMD and CodePro all have the same issues in the Java world. Even the Acid3 browser test had this problem -- IIRC Safari (or was it Opera?) got 100% compliance, but then someone found a bug in the test and Safari lost their 100%.

Any test where you can achieve a perfect score on a subjective metric is destined to cause "not my fault" failures in the future
isa(Perl::Tidy, Silly) (Score:1)

by educated_foo (3106)

Evaluating the human readability of code (i.e. its aesthetics) by how close it is to some machine-generated format is just wrong.
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  by ferreira (5993)
  
  I also believe that claiming a tidy file (as per Perl::Tidy) is more human readable is a too presumptuous statement. Sometimes perltidy bugs me too because I cannot make it fit exactly with my mental model of desirable code layout. But one thing it achieves: an automatic/objective way to determine a layout, cleaning gratuitous difference on code styles and fixing details like: avoiding tabs, enforcing cuddled elses everywhere, etc. And this is a good thing for large codebases, meant to be worked out by man

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