Ede,
I have been through this many times on commercial and other projects and
have found that developers (myself included) get very upset around
coding standards. I have also found that projects work much better if
someone within the project makes a decision and provides a documented
standard of what developers should follow and if possible provide
automated tools to support code layout and checking of rules
(checkstyle). After a while us developers get over it and can get on
with the important part of implementing code. When coming up with
standards readability should be considered over conciseness of code. As
an extreme example every C program can be implemented as nested for
loops. Not that you'd ever consider doing it.
If you have to use the ternary operator some simple formatting could
make it more readable.
y = (x > 0)
? 7
: 8
Paul
Edgar Soldin wrote:
this should read:
finally I think this can go much to far, there is a potential risk to loose
development capacities here, just because of indifferences about
styling... keeping it balanced should be the way.
regards ede
--
The important thing about using the SAME style is that if I am
extending someone else's code in the same project (e.g. adding an
additional else if clause) that when I do a diff I can see oh I just
added a diff clause, rather than, oh there are abunch of whitespace
changes so I really have no way of seeing what has changed other than
look through line by line. I use auto format a lot which means that it
is difficult to find the real changes when there was not consistent
formatting.
Paul
P.Rizzi Ag.Mobilità Ambiente wrote:
Yes, but I don't believe that would add anything to readability...
I think the key is not about everybody using the same style,
but about each one using a "consistent" style.
If one always use the same style, even a non-programmer it's
perfectly able
of understanding it after a couple of example, because it's always
the same.
And even when different people works upon the same code, I don't
think it's
a bad thing if each one uses it's own style, so diferent pieces of
code can be
easily spotted.
But this is just me... :-)
Bye
Paolo Rizzi
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On another note all blocks should use {}, spaces instead of tabs.
2 spaces is the perfect amount of indent.
void mmm(int i, String[] sss) {
if (i < 0) {
i = 0;
}
if (sss == null) {
sss = new String[0];
}
}
P.Rizzi Ag.Mobilità Ambiente wrote:
I use the ?: a lot!!!
I agree that an if/else is more readable, but in some situations
the ?: is better.
For example I use it to "normalize" method parameters:
void mmm(int i,String[] sss)
{
i = i < 0 ? 0 : i;
sss = sss == null ? new String[0] : sss;
...
}
The above is much more concise than:
void mmm(int i,String[] sss)
{
if( i < 0 )
i = 0;
if( sss == null )
sss = new String[0];
}
and I don't find it any less readable...
Sure enough in other cases an if/else is much better!!!
Bye
Paolo Rizzi
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Austin
Inviato: mercoledì 2 luglio 2008 18.35
A: OpenJump develop and use
Oggetto: Re: [JPP-Devel] Style Sheet For Java FOSS Coding
I think that using an if/.else statement is much more
readable than the ?: operator.
It's just another one of those coding religious wars such as if
the { should be on the same or the next line.
Paul
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