Re: The world's evilest code formatting style

From:
"Axter" <google@axter.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
4 Jun 2006 15:12:33 -0700
Message-ID:
<1149459153.039901.29610@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Noah Roberts wrote:

Axter wrote:

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 would really like to meet the person who knows what this code does
without having to do a double or triple take at least.

for(size_t r=0;r<m_row;++r)for(size_t c=0;c<m_col;++c) (*this)[r][c] =
src[r][c];

I find the above line of code to be extreemely simplistic, and the fact
that you're indicating that you and all the programmers you know would
need to do a double or triple take to read above line of code,
indicates that you have poor code reading skills and all the
programmers you assoicated yourself with also have poor code reading
skills.

I recommend you spend more time improving your code reading skills, and
less time complaining about other programmer's code format.

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