Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 2025-02-28, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:

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

On 28.02.2025 09:55, Richard Heathfield wrote:

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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.

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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);

This sort of thing creates a lot of pressure at the 80 column barrier,
even when the names are not that long, and the nesting is not that deep.

                                                         // 80th col
    value = medium_function_name(arg1,                   // brick
                                 not_so_long_name(arg2a, // wall
                                                  arg2b, //
                                                  arg2c),//
                                 arg3);

The actual colum I'm hitting here 57, but it only takes a few extra
indentation levels and slightly longer names before we find ourselves
at 80.

I found that working on a project which had a 100 column rule,
that rule went quite a long way toward relaxing the pressure.

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