Ø Btw here are the result of a small internet poll on indentation styles :
- Allman : 7450 votes
- K&R style : 5514 votes
Ø …
I have to wonder if a person’s choice of style might depend on which language
they are using. For example, I might prefer Allman while working in C but K&R
while working in Go. The deciding factor being that Go always uses a block for
if’s, while C (if memory serves) uses either a single statement or a block.
Thus, when scanning the code quickly, seeing the opening brace doesn’t add any
info to my understanding of what takes place in Go while it would in C.
John
John Souvestre - New Orleans LA
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Subject: Re: [go-nuts] Re: No Allman-Style, No go!
I don't know if you have read this post above :
"BTW, I've just released Genesis, an open source generic preprocessor which
automatically converts Allman style code into K&R and allows genericity by
parametric instantiation.
https://github.com/senselogic/GENESIS
Better late than never... ;)"
Obviously, I don't like AT ALL the K&R style, to which I prefer the Allman
style, for not only personal but also OBJECTIVE reasons.
And yet I've learned Go and enjoy a lot to use this language, despite this
implies using an external tool to add genericity and fix the code indentation.
Btw here are the result of a small internet poll on indentation styles :
- Allman : 7450 votes
- K&R style : 5514 votes
- Whitesmith : 455
- GNU : 422
- Horstman : 131
- Pico : 93
- Banner : 243
(http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/10/the-only-correct-indent-style)
Even if these 14000 votes are obviously not enough to reflect the whole
development community, at least you can see here that many developers prefer
the Allman style to the K&R style.
So sorry, but I completely disagree with your advice to stay away from Go if
you don't like its forced indentation style policy.
It's not only too radical, but also not needed, as there are already tools to
fix that issue.
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 12:01:19 AM UTC+1, JuciÊ Andrade wrote:
I propose a new rule for our Code of Conduct: Before posting to the "No
Allman-Style, No go!" thread, you shall read and understand all previous posts
in the aforementioned thread.
Justo to be clear: Go indentation style is a time saver. It was carefuly
crafted to piss some people off. As you can see, it works wonders. If someone
can't handle a simple change in indentation style, then she has no business
trying to learn Go, so she quits, thus saving time.
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