On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 12:57:44 GMT, Jayathirth D V <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is it not right?
>> I admit I don't understand what you mean by _map_ here.
>>
>> When the code is written like it was:
>> if ((printServices[j] instanceof Win32PrintService) &&
>> (!printServices[j].equals(defaultPrintService))) {
>>
>> ((Win32PrintService)printServices[j]).invalidateService();
>> }
>> it's hard to scan: it's not clear what is part of the condition and what is
>> the statement inside the if block.
>>
>> I'd prefer to write it like this:
>> if ((printServices[j] instanceof Win32PrintService)
>> && (!printServices[j].equals(defaultPrintService))) {
>>
>>
>> ((Win32PrintService)printServices[j]).invalidateService();
>> }
>> That is moving the operator to the continuation line which makes it obvious
>> it is a continuation line of the condition and adding a blank line before
>> the statement in the code. It's still not perfect, however; and it changes
>> the author in `blame` output.
>>
>> I indented the continuation line by additional 8 spaces, which is also a
>> common practice in Java, to visually separate the condition and the
>> statement. In fact, it's IDE that updated the formatting, I decided to keep
>> it because it makes the code clearer.
>>
>> I can revert the change to this line if you like.
>> Or I can just add a blank line between the condition and the statement.
>>
>> What is your preference?
>
> By mapping i mean same indentation for all conditions in if statement without
> adding additional indentation for each continuation line like(Basically line
> without your change of indentation)
> if ((condition1) &&
> (condition2)) {
> }
>
> or
>
> if ((condition1)
> &&(condition2)) {
> }
>
> I have not come across code in java.desktop where we add indentation at each
> continuation line of 'if' condition.
> I understand difficulty to scan without indentation but then in cases where
> we have multiple lines on continuation line in if statement we will easily
> hit 80 characters limit.
>
> If we want to differentiate between if conditions and actual statement
> execution to improve readability, we can move the statement block to new line
> like
> if ((condition1) &&
> (condition2))
> {
> }
I would prefer if you revert this line or if we want to put emphasis on
readability moving '{' to new line also seems fine.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3151
