Wiggins, et al -- Perhaps not so off-topic, actually... Style is important.
...and then Wiggins d'Anconia said...
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% >those posting here seem particularly fascinated by tightly packed
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% This is an interesting comment (and I agree to a point). I am curious if
% the people that post mainly one liners here actually code that way in
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I admit that I'm one of those fascinated by the one-liner; I like to be
able to provide an answer that someone can paste into a shell and have
it run and demonstrate the procedure. It's also fun to hack up such code
when I want a particular little something -- but I admit that I surround
the elegant and trim hack with comments so I remember what I was doing
when I read it later ;-)
In general, my code looks like
code ; # comments tabbed to char 57
code ; # and fairly frequent
conditional or loop # often noting beginning and end of blocks
{
2 space indents ;
more code indented this way ; # comments might be shoved over :-)
}
other conditional
{ one-line block ; }
code ;
code ;
or so; I'm very picky about my indentations and brace placement, and I
comment often but not in prefixing blocks.
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% Just an interesting comment........
Agreed! I know that we've gone into coding styles a bit, and it was
fun to learn some of the BSD and ATT style history, but verbosity and
readability are good topics for beginners (and the advanced :-) to
contemplate.
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