Good post!
I hate reading badly formatted code...specielly code that follows standards
from the 90's. Which evern language it is.
On v.47 tis 23 nov 2010, at 18:52:58, Jerry Krinock wrote:
> General recommendation: If you want people to read your code, please spend
> some time to make it neat and readable. Stuff which is formatted like this:
>
> @interface ComboscAppDelegate : NSObject <NSApplicationDelegate> {
> IBOutlet NSComboBox *countryCombo;
> NSMutableDictionary *theCountries;
> NSMutableArray *myKeys;
> IBOutlet NSWindow *window;
> }
>
> or this:
>
> @synthesize window;
> - (void)applicationWillFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notif {
> theCountries = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
> [NSMutableArray
> arrayWithObjects:@"AAABBB", @"AABBB", @"AAACCC", nil], @"A",
> [NSMutableArray
> arrayWithObjects:@"BBBAAA", @"BBBBBBBB", @"BBBCCC", nil], @"B",
> [NSMutableArray
> arrayWithObjects:@"CCCDDD", @"CCFGGGFF", @"CCCDDDFFF", nil], @"C", nil];
>
> myKeys = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects: [theCountries allKeys], nil];
> }
> @end
>
> makes it look like like the author doesn't really care that much. I've read
> that this list has thousands of subscribers; therefore when posting code you
> should value their time by spending little of yours, as though you were
> giving a presentation to thousands of people.
>
> Apple's Mail.app indents a tab character by 8 spaces, so that if you copy
> code from Xcode, which you have typically set for 3-4 spaces per tab, you end
> up with indentations that are too large, as in the bad example above. Since
> I post alot of code here, long ago I wrote a little AppleScript which
> processes the text on the clipboard, converting each of the tab characters
> inserted by Xcode into 4 spaces. I set it as a menu item in QuicKeys. You
> can put it in your Dock or other favorite app launcher.
>
> <ClipboardTabsToSpaces.scpt.zip>
>
> (P.S. If the clipboard has alot of text on a slow Mac, wait a few seconds
> before pasting.)
>
> Also, if some lines in the code are too long, shorten them by defining
> intermediate variables (and re-test before posting!). I understand that
> modern compilers will remove such intermediate variables, so there is no
> performance penalty.
>
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