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Re^6: My coding guidelines (utopian)by tye (Sage) |
on Apr 13, 2004 at 16:35 UTC ( [id://344789]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I'm of mixed feelings with vertical alignment of things on separate lines where the lines are indented to the same level. I often won't bother but sometimes do and even (sometimes reluctantly) admit that such can make the code easier to read, though I find that it can clearly be taken too far. For example, lining up punctuation just boggles me even though I've seen code like this:
But I really hate lining up indentation of a line to match the length of code on a previous line. So I'll often rewrite code such as:
to something more like
(especially assuming a much longer list of arguments such that it doesn't make sense to group the arguments into a single line). I even prefer to treat () more like {} and write:
and in C where the extra trailing comma isn't tollerated, I'd really like to use:
but hold no hope of getting any of my current cow orkers to see the beauty in that. (: - tye
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