[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33655: WordPress Coding Standards (top level files)

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#33655: WordPress Coding Standards (top level files)
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 Reporter:  Compute      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  General      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Changes (by DrewAPicture):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hi @Compute,

 As a matter of core philosophy, we don't refactor for the sake of
 refactoring, even if means to only bring code in line with our coding
 standards.

 I don't know that I would consider the hook documentation effort to be a
 valid parallel as we essentially introduced a great deal of new
 documentation – for which we actually introduced a
 [https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/inline-
 documentation-standards/php/ php inline documentation standard]. It's a
 lot easier to do these things from the very beginning, unfortunately.

 There's a very informative post about core philosophy on refactoring on
 the core development blog that's worth a read:
 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2011/03/23/code-refactoring/

 Thanks for the suggestion.

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