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 __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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