Am 2017-05-24 um 13:59 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> But in Object Pascal you have...
>
> begin
> ...
> if <whatever> then
> begin
> ...
> if <whatever_else> then
> begin
> ...
> Object Pascal blocks are longer to type - “begin” vs ”{” and “end” vs
”}”.
I don't know why this argument pops up over and over again.
To me it's just the opposite:
I can type "begin" and "end" much faster than the cryptic { and } (on my
german keyboard).
I use all 10 fingers for typing and each special character is an
interruption in my coding flow..
Also, as I already often said:
Program code is *written* only once but maybe *read* very often.
I prefer readable code even if it takes a millisecond longer to type
(which is not the case for me!)
> Also IF statements require the extra “then” keyword etc.
Same argumentation here.
I don't bother to type just another (ASCII) word.
Before I can think about a delay it is typed already...
> As for indentation. At least with real TAB character indentation, you
can configure the width of a TAB as a user configurable parameter
without affecting the source code. With space indentation you are stuck
with whatever the original author did.
That does not help me as I use an indentation scheme that not only relys
on TABs.
I always indent the begin (and end) of a block together with the block:
if true then
begin
DoSomething;
end;
This way the indentation always looks similar
independent from whether you have begin/end or not:
if true then
DoSomething;
Some people indent the code lines only:
if true then
begin
DoSomething;
end;
And some write the begin on the same line:
if true then begin
...
end;
You cannot solve all these cases just by TABs.
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