Hi Göran,

in the beginning when doing pair-programming with Adrian we had a lot of 
discussions about this topic. Because we couldn't find a satisfactory 
solution that we both agree on, we decided to go for the suggestions 
given in 'Smalltalk - Best Practice Pattern'. I think the hints given 
there are quite good and we can both live using them.

If we want to start with having coding conventions, I think we should go 
for something as described in the book by Kent Beck else we just end up 
in a never ending discussion.

> sillyFy: string
> "take the argument and sillyfy it"
> ^ string, ' is silly'.

Let me add a 7th point:

7. Put a space before (and after) binary-operators. Most people do it 
for operators like #+, #*, #-, ... but are not consistent with #,

Luckily your example doesn't involve blocks, this would largely enhance 
the possibilities of formating and opinions ;)

> PS. Perhaps we could write a "styleifier"? Some of these things 
> are both easily detected and corrected.

I agree that the output of the default pretty-printer isn't satisfactory. 
Is there something going coming with the new compiler?

Cheers,
Lukas

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