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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by ericmcer on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:52AM (#25345891)
It is consistent though, do you have a better generic system for grouping object keys than alphabetization? It’s pretty handy to approach a codebase knowing that it has enforced this convention.
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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by wool_gather on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:47PM (#25402033)
The point is that it's not generic: there is meaning conveyed by the grouping that can't be expressed as an easy script (which is why there's a human writing the code in the first place).
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Re:How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You by Seb-C on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:41PM (#25354323)
My point is that having rules on this kind of detail is more harmful than beneficial, so there should not be one in the first place.
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