Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-06-01 Thread Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn

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.


I wonder how much work it would be to write a D pretty printer / 
beautifier. Doing things such as lining up parameters or comments 
and breaking and re-wrapping comments etc if necessary because of 
the changes in whitespace.


I’ve no idea what the ‘official story’ is with nested functions. 
I have some experience with that because I used to write Pascal 
(on a Z80 box and on a VAX), and that feature is like the return 
of an old friend, I love it so much and for me it’s quite a 
serious advantage over C.


I’m always guilty of overcommenting, for various reasons although 
I’m not guilt of the likes of /* add 1 to x */!  ;-) It’s partly 
because I have a shocking memory and maintenance becomes 
literally impossible for me, for me just as important I want the 
comments to spell out original intent, not the implementation 
choices, so if you see later that the two don’t match then you’ve 
spotted the bug.


Many people comment in a very minimal way which makes the code 
look neat.


I did sort of find an /* add 1 to x */ though as it was 
explaining and giving a caveat about GCC in-line asm constraints, 
and the comment saved me having to go and look things up in the 
bible.


Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-06-01 Thread Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn

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 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.


Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-06-01 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d-learn

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.






Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-05-31 Thread Ernesto Castellotti via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Thursday, 1 June 2023 at 03:34:33 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 22:06:50 UTC, Ernesto Castellotti 
wrote:

On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 16:24:38 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:

[...]



Excuse me but for me the only style I like is the K
I can accept Allman but the rest is heretical to me ;-) don't 
worry, just a joke


Is there even such as thing as a pretty-printer / beautifier 
for D ? Has anyone adapted one ?


`it might save me from a lynch mob. :-) :-)


Check this https://github.com/dlang-community/dfmt


Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-05-31 Thread Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 22:06:50 UTC, Ernesto Castellotti 
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.


[...]



Excuse me but for me the only style I like is the K
I can accept Allman but the rest is heretical to me ;-) don't 
worry, just a joke


Is there even such as thing as a pretty-printer / beautifier for 
D ? Has anyone adapted one ?


`it might save me from a lynch mob. :-) :-)


Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-05-31 Thread Ernesto Castellotti via Digitalmars-d-learn

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.


[...]



Excuse me but for me the only style I like is the K
I can accept Allman but the rest is heretical to me ;-) don't 
worry, just a joke


Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-05-31 Thread thinkunix via Digitalmars-d-learn

matheus via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:

On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 16:24:38 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:

...
So my question: would I get lynched for the following? (below)
...


I don't know nothing about all this but looking your example code, I 
write and I'd prefer to read something like this (Editing your own code):



pure nothrow etc T foo(T, T2)(in T param x,in T2 param y)
if (template-qualification-whatever) in {
     static assert(…);
}
out (ret){
     …
     assert(test ret);
}do{
    blah
    if (test) {
   if-body
   …
    }
    back to main block
    …
    …
}

Matheus.


+1 here.  I think Matheus's code is much easier to read.
Code that is easy to read is easier to understand.


Re: Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-05-31 Thread matheus via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 16:24:38 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:

...
So my question: would I get lynched for the following? (below)
...


I don't know nothing about all this but looking your example 
code, I write and I'd prefer to read something like this (Editing 
your own code):



pure nothrow etc T foo(T, T2)(in T param x,in T2 param y)
if (template-qualification-whatever) in {
static assert(…);
}
out (ret){
…
assert(test ret);
}do{
   blah
   if (test) {
  if-body
  …
   }
   back to main block
   …
   …
}

Matheus.


Indenting standards religions K, whitesmiths etc

2023-05-31 Thread Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn
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)

And can anyone recommend a beautifier / pretty printer tool for D 
that is customisable to your house style if that is a thing 
that’s needed? I assume I would need that if I were to donate 
code, unless some helpful recipient would run such a tool on .d 
files received.


—

pure nothrow etc
T
foo( T, T2 )(
in T param x,
in T2 param y
)
if ( template-qualification-whatever )
in {
static assert( … );
}
out ( ret )
{
…
assert( test ret );
}
do   {
blah
if ( test ) {
…
if-body
…
}
back to main block
…
…
} /* end of function, notice the indent level stays out 
with the content */