Blah - I used to be of the "compactness" mindset as well. Then I remembered something my dad would always bombard me with when I was in math class as a kid. "Write everything out!" I used to think he was just old, but then I got my report card and no longer had any ammo against his request. I am now of the mindset - take your time, make it neat, and line everything up in neat little columns and rows. You'll save yourself from the regret of "I swear I carried the one?".
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jarrod Moore Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nant-users] Off-Topic: Coding Conventions & Code Complete by McConnell Sorry, this is a bit off topic, but I was curious about someting I saw on the coding conventions page(http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6080&group_id=3 1650). On that page it shows the curly braces being used on the same line as the if statement, as well as the else. I must say that I completely agree with this, and it is my preferred style of coding. I'm trying to convince some other people to use this method instead of the other bad examples shown on the page, but I don't have any ammo to win my argument. I went and bought the Code Complete book to see what the reasoning was in there, since it was mentioned on the page. After looking through the book, I found that there is no mention of curly brace usage and logical structure. Can someone point me to the correct page in the book, or(if feeling generous) type out the necessary text? My only thought as to why this isn't in the book is that the previous publisher of the book wasn't MS Press. Since MS advocates the horribly expanded way of writing code, my only assumption was that they had that part taken out. Sorry for such a long post for such a simple thing. Thanks, Jarrod ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
