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it’s a good idea in theory, if every programmer in the world adopted the methodology right now. practically though, if you tried to implement it, it’d just be a
by crimberlee 7y ago
it’s a good idea in theory, if every programmer in the world adopted the methodology right now. practically though, if you tried to implement it, it’d just be added on top of all of the formatting strategies that already exist, adding more confusion and noise to the problem.
Relevant xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- keeyan 7y agoTrue, I'm not saying we should do it since not everybody would follow and it would just cause more pain. But if everybody would then I think it would work better than the current approach. I still indent my code (obviously) and follow language style guides because if I everybody did what they thought was best every code base would be a complete mess.