Re: is this badly written code?
Re: is this badly written code?
- Subject: Re: is this badly written code?
- From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:29:23 -0500
On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:25 AM, john darnell wrote:
2.) Symmetry can add elegance to the visual aspect of your code, and
thus make it more pleasing to the eye, and easier to decipher. For
example, when I have a long list of includes, I often do this to them:
#include <aaa.h>
#include <bbbbbbbbbbbb.h>
#include <cccc.h>
Note that not everybody uses monospaced fonts everywhere - this is,
after all, the 21st century. Especially considering that Xcode allows
you to specify that different elements can be different fonts, styles,
etc... For example, I've got my comments to be in a more readable non-
monospaced font, and language keywords are in a bold font, etc...
(funny how long it took for "modern" development systems to support
features that Think Pascal nearly 20 years ago)
I've even seen code where people used "ascii art fonts" for major
comment section headers. Needless to say, they are completely
illegible with a non-monospaced font.
Using spaces to line up code is generally bad (tabs are somewhat
better, but not perfect due to the whole "how many spaces per tab").
Maybe someday we'll be able to have real "word-processing style"
formatting in source code so we can use real alignment rules, real
table formatting, included image diagrams, etc... (and have semantic
features so we won't have to rely on "comment markup" like HeaderDoc).
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
<http://www.gandreas.com/> wicked fun!
quadrium | prime : build, mutate, evolve, animate : the next
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