Re: The world's evilest code formatting style
Noah Roberts wrote:
Kai-Uwe Bux wrote:
Phlip wrote:
Kai-Uwe Bux wrote:
void Whatever() {
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
printf("whatever\n");
}
}
Thats just dumb beyond dumb.
care to provide a reason ...
Because our last best hope for clarity among nested blocks is the ability
to see { in the same column as }.
I guess whether that poses a problem depends heavily on what you are used
to. I never found any difficulty with right-bracing in regard of clarity.
But then again, my blocks are not that deeply nested anyway.
I don't see it as a "problem" but braces on the next line are more
immediately readable to me.
I think it's a waste to put braces on the next line when you only have
one line of code.
Really, that is a small issue. The real issue is that whitespace
should at least be used somewhere and code should be written to be as
readable as possible without going really insain on the idea.
I also think it's a waste to put white spaces in code for one line of
code, just because you think there should be white spaces.
IMHO, if you cann't read the following line of code without white
spaces, then maybe you should be doing something else beside
programming in C++.
inline T* operator[](size_t i) {return (m_data + (m_col*i));}
I like to be able to read as much as my code in one page as possible,
and putting useless extra lines of code, makes that harder to do.
IMHO, throughing useless whitespaces and useless extra lines of code in
your code, makes it harder to read from top to bottom, and it can be
more of a destraction, then something that adds clarrity.
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