Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:22:05 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

On 28/02/2025 10:19, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 28/02/2025 09:21, Janis Papanagnou wrote: 

On 28.02.2025 09:55, Richard Heathfield wrote: 

<snip> 

 

On the other hand, I maxed out at 24. 

>
It would be interesting to get to know what sort of code-lines
or what sort of code-structure these extreme values stem from. 

 
I thought so too, so I looked, and of course it's not as
interesting as we might have hoped.
 
I'm not allowed to post the code here, but I can paraphrase:
 
   value = really_quite_extremely_long_function_name(arg1,
                                                     arg2,
                                                     arg3,
                                                     arg4);
 
<sigh>
 

 
I think I'd go with this:
 
     value = really_quite_extremely_long_function_name(
         arg1,
         arg2,
         arg3,
         arg4);
 

Same here. Except that I'd use even smaller indentation.

But not for printf(). For printf I prefer
  printf("short format %d+%d+%d=%d\n"
    ,arg1
    ,arg2
    ,arg3
    ,arg4
  );

When format string is longer I put it on the separate line as well.

Since the args would then also line up with a similar call but where
the function name is a different length:
 
     value2 = a_somewhat_shorter_function_name(
         arg1,
         arg2,
         arg3,
         arg4);
 
That's assuming it is still not viable to have them all on the same
line.