Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 05/03/2025 13:44, David Brown wrote:

On 05/03/2025 13:22, Anton Shepelev wrote:

Richard Heathfield:
>

I like to break after a binary operator so that it is
syntactically obvious that the line must continue:
>
if((a != b        &&
      c != d        &&
      e != f)       ||
     (g = h() * i() &&
     (j = k))
{
    foo();
}
>
(You'll be glad to hear that that's not a direct quote!)

>
There is no way I like for the formatting of multiline
conditions in if()'s.

 Agreed.  The correct (IMNO, of course) way to re-format the code above is to throw it out and start again.  There is no way to make it clear in a single expression.  (The appropriate way to organise the final result will depend on what these different identifiers actually are in real code.)

I can now reveal that in real code those identifiers don't exist, having been spun into existence merely to serve as an illustration.
In practice, of course, one would have refactored the code long before it reached this advanced stage of nonsensicalitude.
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