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A long time ago when starting learning programming I remember a teacher saying that compiler do not care about whitespace and they are useful to make code readable for human beings. It made perfect ...
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As I have recently started using ES6 in production, I was going through an ES6 style guide (having more than 350 stars on GitHub). This guide mentions at least three times that "Tabs are evil. Don't ...
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I could not find any official recommended indentation for the following idiom (straight from http://effbot.org/zone/python-with-statement.htm): with open(path) as f: data = f.read() do ...
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Is there a convenient and sustainable way to handle code indentation and style in a team in which multiple IDE's (Emacs, XCode, VS) are used by different programmers? We are using git, so, should we ...
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I find css quite hard to read sometimes. Indents, depending on the dom structure, would greatly increase readability. Consider the following example: #page { text-align:center; font-weight:...
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In files that contain multiple languages (ie. template files), are there any best practises regarding indentation? I mostly use this: <div> IF FOO <div> <p>...
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Just curious. The most I have ever had was a for loop within a for loop, because after reading this from Linus Torvalds: Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There ...
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Look at the formatting of the variable declarations. I haven't encountered this indentation style in the past, but lately I stumbled upon two different code examples which use this style. Where does ...
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I am interested in finding out who introduced code indentation, as well as when and where it was introduced. It seems so critical to code comprehension, but it was not universal. Most Fortran and ...
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I hear a lot that you should not write functions larger than one screen size, that you should extract things into functions if you call things very often and all these coding guidelines. One of them ...
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Our development process is as follows code the task -> someone else QAs code and documentation -> task is merged into trunk. Recently a colleague is refusing to pass the code QA due to issues with ...
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I have two friends that have completely different schools of thought on how to lay out their code. The first says that code should be well-indented and use lots of spaces and to name variables ...
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The advantage of using tabs for indentation is that people can configure their editor to use the tab width they are comfortable with. The only argument against this seems to be that people don't want ...
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I realise that this question may be down to personal preference but I'm pretty new to Bash / shell scripting so thought it'd be worth some research to see if there's some sort of standard/best ...
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Code formatting matters. Even indentation matters. And consistency is more important than minor improvements. But projects usually don't have a clear, complete, verifiable and enforced style guide ...
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