Coding style?

**Brian** · 10-19-2003

What kind of coding styles do you adopt?

edit: DAMMIT my poll is meant to have checkboxes, not radio buttons.

**MrWizard** · 10-19-2003

I don't really understand your poll. For instance, you could have brackets on their own line and use the hungarian naming convention.

**Thantos** · 10-19-2003

Hence his comment of:

DAMMIT my poll is meant to have checkboxes, not radio buttons

Which was done a good amount of time before your post.

**Lurker** · 10-19-2003

Well, I'm not quite sure what category mine is:

Code:

// if / functions / classes / structs / loops:
int blah(float one, char two) { //space between ) and {, but on same line, ", " seperating each variable
      statement; // instead of a space for an indent, I use tabs
}

**Magos** · 10-19-2003

Allman all the way

**major_small** · 10-19-2003

i can't really complete it without checkboxes... sometimes i put everything on one line, otherwise brackets get their own line...

Code:

int className::retVal(){ return returnedval; }
int className::calcVal()
{
     val+=2;
     return val;
}

also, I don't know what some of them mean...

**glUser3f** · 10-20-2003

I can't stand brackets having their own line, it looks messy to me

**FillYourBrain** · 10-20-2003

Originally posted by glUser3f
I can't stand brackets having their own line, it looks messy to me

That's weird. Completely opposite to most people. The only reason for having them on the same line is to save space and be able to see more lines at one time. Giving them their own line gives a clearer picture of the code block.

**twm** · 10-20-2003

>Giving them their own line gives a clearer picture of the code block.
Because indention is horrible for that purpose.

We should inform Python users before any more damage is done.

**Thantos** · 10-20-2003

Having brackets on their own lines in combo with proper indentation makes it a lot easier to match up brackets.

Now who uses spaces instead of indents? I do...now

**FillYourBrain** · 10-20-2003

Because indention is horrible for that purpose.

uh... I said "clearer", as in better than just indenting.

aka: in addition to, as well as, also, with, adjacent to, etc...

Code:

if(blahblahblah){
   //stuff
   //is second line part of a block? or what?
.
.
.

It just defines the block more clearly.

**FillYourBrain** · 10-20-2003

Now who uses spaces instead of indents? I do...now

yup. A company I worked for had that in their coding standards so I adopted it.

edit: fortunately visual studios has a setting that makes tab insert spaces instead of tab characters. That has made my life easier.

**Lurker** · 10-20-2003

Originally posted by glUser3f
I can't stand brackets having their own line, it looks messy to me

Yay someone else agrees!!!

**adrianxw** · 10-20-2003

Allman non Hungarian. The professionals choice.

**glUser3f** · 10-20-2003

Originally posted by FillYourBrain
That's weird. Completely opposite to most people. The only reason for having them on the same line is to save space and be able to see more lines at one time. Giving them their own line gives a clearer picture of the code block.

Hmm, I prefer to put empty lines where I need them, not because I just started another loop.
And matching brackets is just as easy:

Code:

-    for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) {
|          -  if (done) {
|          |          break;
|          -  }
-    }

This is just my opinion, maybe bacause the fist book I ever read about programming used the coding style, don't know.

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