• GNU/Dhruv
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    141 year ago

    Is this some kind of python meme I’m too C++ to understand?

    Now, I’m completely willing to start a war about { going on the next line.

    • Eavolution
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      91 year ago

      It goes on the line! If you put it below, you’re wasting a line for no extra readability!

      • GNU/Dhruv
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        71 year ago

        It goes on the next line, so you can have open and close brackets at the same indent depth for easy visual matching.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Your closing } goes on a new line below at the same indent depth as the line containing the open {!

        • TheInsane42
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          21 year ago

          This, as it also helps when using % to go to the matching open/close bracket when the cursos doesn’t jump all around the place…

    • TheInsane42
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      1 year ago

      Totally agree, all my { end up on the next line, 1st spot when starting a function, last character of the keyword when starting an if/for/… section. I even put the closing one on the same line when it’s single line, else either at the end of the closing line (when changing really old code) or same indent.

      So indenting varies a lot, which makes most ‘new’ programmers go mental.

      while (my code)
          { I'll do it my way }
      
      if (! liked)
       { toughen-up }
      else
       { get used to it
         multi-line can go both ways...
       }
      

      That is, unless the font used messes it up. ;)

      • @salimundo
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        11 year ago

        Why isn’t the else curly lined up with the end of the else word? I’d your gonna go crazy might as well go all the way I guess 😜

        • TheInsane42
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          11 year ago

          The { of the else is just the 2nd, optional, part of the if statement, so I was learned to align it with the opening keyword. I do the same with the then keyword, when the language requires a then, then it’s aligned with the i if if an the { with the f of if.

          In the old days, when memory was expensive (in the day of 4k computers), even an extra cr/lf was worth preventing. Hence C has no then, C layout is usually { … } for one liners… or even without the { },… I learned to program in the IT dark ages. ;)

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Wonder what the x-axis is? Survey year? Years of experience? Caffeine intake?

      Anyway, I can hardly join a holy war – I code in assembly most comfortably, which I’m pretty sure is heresy these days.