On Thursday, 1 June 2023 at 09:37:43 UTC, Dukc wrote:
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.
Agree completely. You are not a criminal though because your
closing braces are not indented out with the block they’re
closing as I do.
I find K&R hard to read even though we see it everywhere, or
variants of it. I do wonder if my style in that earlier post
hurts normal people’s eyeballs a lot. ;-)
I’m told that Irish speakers can’t understand Scottish Gaelic on
the radio a native speaker said to me that ‘it’s just a noise’.
But as a ScG learner myself I can understand some spoken Irish
even though I’ve never really studied the modern language (only
the stuff of more that 1100 yrs ago.) So the pain isn’t
symmetrical.