On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 16:24:38 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I wanted to ask how some of the leaders of our group feel about
D indentation standards. `i realise that this causes some
religious fervour in C. I could be in trouble here because in
all my years at work, we never used K & R ‘one true brace
style’ indenting, with the house style I’m used to being more
like whitesmiths. Wikipedia explains this better. Something
like the following below.
So my question: would I get lynched for the following? (below)
Check out this module from me:
https://github.com/dukc/nuklearbrowser/blob/master/source/nuklearbrowser.d
Plus similar style in most of my posts and bug reports. I'm still
alive :D.
Your code is your code. There, you may do as you wish. You have
to aknowledge that an esoteric style may make it more difficult
to read for some, but we're not lynching people for other factors
of code readability either. Brace style is no different.
Plus, what brace style is considered readable by the majority is
a culture issue. There has to be some way to challege the
established culture. If you don't exercise your power to code as
you wish, someone will make your choice for you. Coding culture,
or even culture in general, cannot develop if people never
challege the present status quo.
When you're coding with others, though, then you should obey the
style guideline of that project if there is one. Even there
you're as entitled as anyone for an opinion what the style policy
should be (and to whether there should be style policy at all),
but you then should (usually) obey the decision regardless
whether it's the one you were advocating for.
