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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can use spaces in Python.

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Two, three or four spaces? If you answer wrong I'll never forgive you

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 16 points 10 months ago

Whatever your place defines as a standard. I’ve seen ugly code in C, JavaScript, Java, etc., that uses them all over the place because they’re not mandatory.

If you don’t have consistent indenting, your code looks like copy/paste from several sources; but if you do have consistent indenting, then the indenting of Python is a non-issue.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Per the Linux kernel coding style:

Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I’m rather partial to five myself but only when I’m feeling fancy.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Yes

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No one will ever know. That is my editor's job. XD

[–] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Depends on the mood.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Indentation-driven control flow is one of the most cursed things ever invented, excluding things explicitly designed to inflict pain or death.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

White space sensitive languages are evil.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Haskell has the choice of both indentation based and brackets for things like do blocks, but most people use indentation based cause it's the norm and looks cleaner