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[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And who can forget this abomination

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

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Aka the bash one-liner

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.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The eternal holy wars rage on

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (6 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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[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Bienenvolk@feddit.de 4 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.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 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".

[–] Bienenvolk@feddit.de 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.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Allman is a benign neurosis

[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 3 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.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 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
[–] sverit@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[–] kittykittycatboys@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fixed?? 😳😳

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Crockford gang approves.

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