Re: Code Beautification Question

  • From: Jared Wright <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:16:52 -0500

Bob,This is definitely a good idea. Thanks for the tip.

Jared

Bob J. wrote:
Jared,

For comment lines that wrap to a second line because they are at the end of
a line of code,
I like to move the comment to the line above the line of code to avoid the
broken line.  To each his own.

Bob


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Wright" <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Code Beautification Question


Thanks for the tips, and with expressions that does make a lot of sense.
Currently my conventions are dictated by no-one but me, but I just
wanted to get a feel for if there are any widely accepted guidelines for
this. My biggest issues is with comments that wrap onto the next line, I
suppose. I write overly verbose comments maybe. *smile*

Jared

tribble wrote:
Hi -- well it depends on the conventions of the people you are working
with.
When I was coding for a living, we would not only indent, but for huge
expressions, we would preserve the hierarchy of the operations in the
expression in the indentation.
However, for small to moderately sized expressions that ran over a line,
we
would not insert a line break, but would leave it all on a line so that
the
(now old fashioned) debugger would print the whole expression out when we
were debugging.
HTH
--le



----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Wright" <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:21 AM
Subject: Code Beautification Question


Hello all, Just a blink with a question for those of you who appreciate
aesthetically pleasing code. If I have a line that wraps, say  because
of long expressions in the code itself or because of trailing comments
at the end of the line, is it standard practice to indent that line to
match the indentation level of the line above it? Or because of the
various line lenghts in different editors, am I only really making
things worse by doing that? Would actually be nifty if this was a no-no,
since my editor just puts the next line at the far left and combing
through and making the indentation levels match is sort of a pain.
Thanks for the thoughts.

Jared


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