How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by makapuf on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:20PM (#25336863)

Exactly Like english or any written language, generally books are typesetted against a bunch of general conventions. You dont choose if you get one or two spaces after a semicolon. Your book is not great because you wrote it in leetcase, you focus on the meaning, not the details.

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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by musingsole on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:31PM (#25341824)

You really do get to choose if you want 1 or 2 spaces or whatever formatting you want. Certain publishing houses might have style guides that they follow strictly and others less so, but all this just makes the formatting for a book a perfect metaphor to formatting code.

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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by tharkun__ on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:47PM (#25353804)

You don't. The consistency is within the same book (or maybe publisher). A book would look ridiculous if every paragraph was using a different number of spaces after punctuation.

But between two books its just personal preference whether you agree with the choice the author/publisher made.

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