On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 07:58:57 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
On 01/18/13 07:45, Mehrdad wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 05:41:00 UTC, Artur Skawina
wrote:
This is one of the reasons why automatic code formatting is
such a bad idea.
In what language? In C# it's actually a fantastic idea.
Every language. Not only does it mean that the heuristics
mentioned by Walter
can't be used (which isn't the main problem, as the error rate
is way too high),
but skipping of the manual
(re-)formatting-and-verifications-phase actively
reduces code quality by removing opportunities for extra
review, discovery of
refactoring possibilities and reflection.
Sane, but badly formatted code is much preferable to bad, but
pretty code. The
former can be easily fixed. Ugly code, that also happens to be
bad, will be
found and fixed as part of that process.
Auto formatting loses information which makes spotting the
truly bad code harder.
artur
Have you /actually/ tried this in Visual C#?
Visual C# doesn't use "heuristics" to do format your code... it's
not like C++ where everything is ambiguous.
I suggest you give it a try and let the auto-formatter format
your code to see what I mean.
