• vampire@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Just run with the default style of the de-facto formatter for whatever language you are using. It’s really not worth any mental effort.

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      10 months ago

      This is true, but it also moves the discussion to which is the superior code for matter for languages that don’t have a clear default option, and of course to which languages have the best formatters.

      I have a hard stance in this question - code formatters should be deterministic on any given syntax tree - there should be no leeway for choosing how any given piece of code formats. Seriously. If your anti-bikeshedding tool does not completely eliminate the bikeshedding, you have not done your job correctly.

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    10 months ago

    What is Lisp style, Lisp doesn’t have this syntax? Or is it referring to something other than Lisp languages. Same with Haskell.

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      10 months ago

      Haven’t coded with Lisp, but I’ve seen Lisp codes that are formatted like that. Haskell too.

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    10 months ago

    Ew. I usually don’t use curly braced languages. But whenever I need to define collections on multiple lines I always put opening bracket on the end of the line and closing bracket on the same indent level as the start of the statement:

    let hello = [
      "Hello, there!",
    ]
    var
      a = true
      arr = [
        "line 1",
        "line 2",
      ]
    
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    10 months ago

    Can we talk about variable scope? Is x changing inside a called function without so much as a pointer being passed?

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      10 months ago

      Avoiding global variables is just something dumb people do to protect themselves. Real programmers declare every variable before Main.