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[–] thesporkeffect 5 points 7 months ago

The eternal holy wars rage on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And who can forget this abomination

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

[–] thesporkeffect 3 points 7 months ago

Aka the bash one-liner

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago

Allman is a benign neurosis

[–] Tehdastehdas 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 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 7 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

fixed?? 😳😳

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months 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] 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Crockford gang approves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

4, just like the PEP8 gods intended

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