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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Allmans what I learnt then went to K&R on my own because it made more sense to me. I think GNU is fine I guess, not the others though. Not that what I say matters I've forgotten how to code and can barely do Hello World these days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And who can forget this abomination

while (x == y) { func1(); func2(); }

[–] thesporkeffect 3 points 1 year ago

Aka the bash one-liner

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If prefer two spaces per indention instead of tabs, but otherwise I agree with the choice of style.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Tabs has no place in code, just recently I started a project with four space indentation, that quickly got changed to two.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On a serious note tho, I never understood the benefits of GNU's spaces after functions. I don't really mind most of the rest but I just don't get the benefits of 'funcname (arg)' vs. 'funcname(arg)'. Is there a specific reason for this? Personally, I find this to reduce readability because I have to think for a split second whether I'm looking at a variable or a function call.

Of cause this is also due to my habits, but I'm curious as to what the reasoning is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I think it's just "spaces before open parens" and at least it's consistent. K&R, which I use, wants spaces before the parens in conditionals and loops but not in method sigs or method calls and the linter at work gets me almost every time I type the word "if".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough if the GNU dudes valued consistent spacing more than taking function calls as one "logical block". Not my cup of tea but that's what configurable auto formatting is for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Allman is a benign neurosis

[–] Tehdastehdas 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why would a development environment show you code in a different style from what you like? It's a simple conversion.

Why would your IDE show you code in a language other than you prefer? It's just a conversion.

Even my web browser shows any text in languages I can read, but for some reason it doesn't let me edit a document through the translation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I want a language that takes this and has a specification for the editor to prettify it

while x==y
     func1
     func2
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fixed?? 😳😳

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

All of these are bearable except for Haskell style. Wtf is that😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Crockford gang approves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I might argue that rhe syntax of God's language is the one true syntax.

I am tired and unmotivated so I probably won't though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why Python has a superior syntax. There is usually one obvious way to do it, and that's the right way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

4, just like the PEP8 gods intended

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