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[-] Ashiette@lemmy.world 93 points 9 months ago

Allman is very practical for JSON

[-] brianary@startrek.website 71 points 9 months ago
[-] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 31 points 9 months ago

With all due respect, 🤮

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[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Always Allman. Those others give you cancer

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 19 points 9 months ago

Allman all the way.

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[-] Solrac@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago

Finally, someone understands that Allman is not that great, and that Kernighan & Ritchie is the way to go. Also, Haskell, my guy, you good? Lisp, are you ok? Do I need to call your parents?

[-] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 38 points 9 months ago

Do I need to call your parens*

[-] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 34 points 9 months ago

Allman all the way baybeeee

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 10 points 9 months ago

I've written Haskell quite a bit, and I don't fully understand why this is called Haskell style. Haskell code looks nothing like this, the syntax is completely different. For Haskell's syntax I think it works fine, because I never noticed something weird. But this code in "Haskell style" looks absolutely insane

[-] t_veor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 9 months ago

It's sometimes called comma-leading style where you move all the special characters to the front of the line and it is exceedingly common in Haskell, possibly due to how Haskell treats significant whitespace. You've surely seen list definitions that look like this:

someList =
  [ 1
  , 2
  , 3
  ] 

or a data definition like this:

data Color
  = Red
  | Green
  | Blue
  | RGB Int Int Int
  deriving (Show, Eq)

or a list of module exports like this:

module Foo
  { bar
  , baz
  , quux
  } 

Or in a long function type declaration where the arrows are moved to the start of the line, or a record definition, etc. etc.

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 63 points 9 months ago

All of those are heretical. The one True Language is Brainfuck, where the coding syntax for Hello World is

++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.

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[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 56 points 9 months ago

Allman looks fine to me. But I'm a C# dev so maybe I'm just used to it.

[-] nik9000@programming.dev 23 points 9 months ago

It's not my favorite but it's fine.

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[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

idk, Allman is very readable. Easy to scan vertically to find the matching open brace. Not quite as vertically-space efficient as the best way, but it's not offensive.

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 32 points 9 months ago

Plus one for Allman gang

[-] hardware26@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

In my first ever programming class textbook was using Allman. Probably for this reason, it is easy for a beginner to match braces. It is a lot loss common industry to my knowledge.

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago

Allman works best if you like folding code blocks.

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[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

No line breaks. Just one long line of code.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

All line breaks. Just one tower of code.

class
HelloWorld
{
public
static
void
main(String[]
args)
{
System.out.println("Hello,
World!");
}
}
[-] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

as always, c++ lets us do better in breathtakingly elegant fashion:

#\
i\
n\
c\
l\
u\
d\
e\
 \ 
&lt;\
i\
o\
s\
t\
r\
e\
a\
m\
>

finishing out hello world is left as an exercise to the reader, but the advantages and superior performance of this format should be obvious

[-] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

why not

...

System
.out
.println(
"Hello,

...

?

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[-] Aedis@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Tell me you're a Java developer without telling me you're a Java developer.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 31 points 9 months ago

Haskell, baby, what is you doing??

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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Noone writes Haskell like that. People generate Haskell like that because layout syntax is a fickle beast to generate and outputting braces means you can make mistakes in layout without breaking things, the way the braces and semicolons are output emphasise how they actually don't matter, they're also easy to delete in a text editor.

Also it matches up with other Haskellisms, e.g. lists:

let foo = [ bar
          , baz
          , quux
          ]

See how it's immediately apparent that you didn't miss a single comma? It's also trivial to match up opening and closing brackets like that, even in deeply nested situations.

Not doing that is actually my main pet peeve with Rust's standard formatting.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Allman is the only other one that has some sanity.

[-] Chrumbs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 months ago

Allman is objective the correct choice

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

That's not Lisp...

(while (== x y)
  (func1)
  (func2)
)
[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

(((((Not(enough)))((parentheses)))))

[-] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

No syntax, only parentheses

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[-] flamingos@ukfli.uk 8 points 9 months ago

What kind of monster writes lisp with the closing bracket on its own line.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People code like that????

People indent braces more than the line before and less than the line after?

Words cannot express my displeasure

[-] Luvon@beehaw.org 14 points 9 months ago

Allman or even horstmann I could still deal with, the rest would be difficult.

Though none are as bad as whoever came up with right aligning all the brackets to make any code look like python until you spot the deranged line of brackets on the right…

I cannot for the life of me find it now but the dude put it on GitHub

[-] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 24 points 9 months ago

I found this from ~9 years ago on imgur, “A Python programmer attempting Java”

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[-] strepto@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago
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[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Looking at them all, I don't hate whitesmiths. Keeps all the associated block on one line which makes it a bit easier to parse

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

I use Allman for control statements and K&R for declarations

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

If you have ADHD, your coding style is a combination of all of these, and sometimes none of the above.

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oh so you hate Richard stallman?

[-] threethan@reddthat.com 10 points 9 months ago
[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

Some of those made me physically ill.

Like. You do WHAT with your whitespace?!

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