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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mac@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] realharo@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Anything for indent (barely matters, as long as the editor forces it to stay consistent), and fuck alignment, just put things on a new line.

[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

struct Ident arr = [
{
.id
= 0,
.name
= "Bob",
.pubkey
= "",
.privkey
= ""
},
{
.id
= 1,
.name
= "Alice",
.pubkey
= "",
.privkey
= ""
}
];

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not like that, lol

Just saying, instead of this monstrosity

CreateOrderRequest(user,
                   productDetails,
                   pricingCalculator,
                   order => order.internalNumber)

Just use

CreateOrderRequest(
    user,
    ...

Putting the first argument on a separate line.

Same if you have an if using a bunch of and (one condition per line, first one on a new line instead of same line as the if) and similar situations.

[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When I talk about alignment it's not about function arguments, but values, "=" signs and such. You simply cannot use tabs for that because alignment must be fixed and indentation independent:

CreateOrderRequest(
    user,
    productDetails     => order.detail,
    pricingCalculator  => DEFAULT_CALCULATOR,
    order              => order.internalNumber)

[–] milo128@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

seconded on not aligning things. its the whole source of the problem in the first place and doesnt even serve a purpose

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It does help with reducing thrashing between edits in git diffs. Or rather, opinionated autoformatters do, which is the only reason I bother with alignment.