IDE influence (was RE: [thelist] ColdFusion: Nested pound si gns)

[Jon Haworth]

Grr.

> function {
> 	stuff and another	{
> 		function
> 	}
> }

Aaahhh, the one true brace style (apart from the variable width tab stops
<grin>)

> function
> {
> 	stuff and another
> 	{
> 		function
> 	}
> }

Please take this infected, bastardised, evil mess out into the street and
shoot it.

if (foo) {
  bar
} else {
  fnord
}

function (foo) {
  bar
}

while (foo)
  bar
}

This just makes so much more sense to me. If I'm scrolling up from a closing
brace, I don't just want to see a matching opening brace, I want to see what
it's closing.

If you're using the second style above purely to cut down on missing braces,
may I humbly suggest a

<tip title="Opening and closing elements, braces, etc">
If you open a <td> while you're doing an HTML page, immediately add the
respective </td>, *then* start putting stuff in between them. If you open a
{ while you're coding, immediately add the respective }, *then* start
working on the code that goes between them.

In a very short time this will become second nature and you'll find you're
spending a lot less time chasing those annoying bugs that end up being down
to a missing brace. This will give you more time to chase those annoying
clients for payment :-)
</tip>

Cheers
Jon






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