On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Michael Ash wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Paul M<l...@no-tek.com> wrote:
In documentation, stacking the arguments verticaly is of value. In
actual
code, I _always_ concatenate
on to as few lines as necesary (tho' using double indentation for
subsequent
lines) as I find it makes for much _more_ readable code.
Reasoning? - I wrote that code, or I've already read it carefully,
so I know
- as well as I need to - what kinds of arguments it takes. What I'm
much
more interested in is the 'shape' of the code, or it's structure.
So fitting
more on a page is much of more value (but not over-compressing the
code as
this has exactly the oposite effect).
A problem with an individual function call means I concentrate on
the line
or lines that it occupies, stacking verticaly doesnt help much. If
the
structure of the code is obfusicated, that will always be a problem
and an
ongoing one.
The trouble with this sort of thing is that when you come back to the
code in six months' time you will no longer know what kinds of
arguments it takes and other such important details. Whether it's
better to optimize for the short term or for the long term is of
course a difficult decision that you need to make for yourself. I
personally like to split long methods onto multiple lines or, better
yet, take long methods as a sign of a design flaw and eliminate them
altogether.
Mike
Exactly! Moreover, often times (especially if you're part of a team)
one doesn't write code that's read just by oneself.
Wagner
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