Re:Indentation Style: Notable Styles
by voidUpdate on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @04:40AM
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I often put an extra line of space after blocks, and between lines that are less logically linked, just to separate them in my head better. Also I do wish you could use brackets in Python so I could have my beloved Allman there too :P
Re:Indentation Style: Notable Styles
by danwills on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @04:56AM
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Same!
To me it's a bit like formatting any document nicely.. we wouldn't usually let paragraphs run into each other, and I think in general it can be helpful to split up long blocks of anything into concept-sized chunks whenever possible for easier reading! (I think of this as a type of weird antialiasing)
Re:Indentation Style: Notable Styles
by voidUpdate on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @05:45AM
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Makes sense to me. The annoying thing with Go is that every end of line that doesn't have a brace gets a sort of virtual semicolon added, to make it easier for the programmer, so Allman style is forbidden, since it would mean that the previous line gets a semicolon appended. I guess that also means you can't split statements across multiple lines like you can in other languages for readability :/
Agreeing with sibling comment too that K&R can be ok.. seems like K&R function declarations have Allman-like vertically-aligned brackets, but why not make that consistent for blocks inside the function too? 1TBS goes in the opposite direction, so not heaps of a fan of that.
I am a big fan of whitespace in code though, running afoul of various style-guides at times (like PEP8) because of the desire to put space between things to make things clearer.
I reckon code is already a very-condensed form of information, so it can help to make it easier to distinguish the meaningfully-different pieces by having some space around them. I know this is not everyone's jam, but that's what I like when reading code.