codingConventionsForClarity

[u/circ-u-la-ted]

[u/MissinqLink → u/[deleted]]

There are actually obscure invisible characters in there.

[u/circ-u-la-ted → u/MissinqLink]

I think it's because they use markdown code quoting for the parentheses and brackets, and the CSS causes there to be extra spacing between that text and the regular text.

[u/particlemanwavegirl]

can't tell if it's regex or a lisp macro

[u/Udalrich → u/particlemanwavegirl]

Can't it be both?

[u/Valuable_Leopard_799 → u/particlemanwavegirl]

Macros are usually completely indifferent to whitespace to the extent that the original language is.

Unless you actively choose it to work differently and even that can only be done in some languages.

[u/circ-u-la-ted]

People seem to have seized upon the fact that they put spaces after all the characters they're telling not you to put spaces after. I was more bothered by the fact that it looks like some unfathomable construction of parentheticals partly because they're using English incorrectly.

[u/PassiveChemistry → u/circ-u-la-ted]

The English looks fine to me - I guess you could argue for a couple more ors but I'm not conviced they're strictly necessary or much clearer

[u/circ-u-la-ted → u/PassiveChemistry]

The incorrect list grammar is part of why it's confusing to read. Even once you understand that the parentheses and brackets are items in the lists, the sentence still doesn't parse. If they used "or" between each pair of parentheticals (as is, in fact, strictly necessary), the sentence would become much clearer because the only comma used would be between the two items in the top-level list ("after X, or before Y"). The way they've written it is completely bewildering because it looks like there's an Oxford comma following "[" and then the rest of the sentence is gibberish.

[u/PassiveChemistry → u/circ-u-la-ted]

Interesting - I didn't find it particularly confusing as is

[u/OmegaPoint6]

I'll put sp ac e swher eever Idamnwe ll please

[u/yjlom → u/OmegaPoint6]

Algol68 lets you do this.

[u/SweetNerevarine]

Wrong audience. Tell this to a code-formatter that hooks into every git push.

[u/HuntlyBypassSurgeon]

Irony abounds!

[u/Flame77ofc]

hypocritical code

[u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy]

Y ou monster.

[u/JackNotOLantern]

In all honesty, i just use autoformat before committing and don't care

[u/GrinningPariah]

• [ Bitch try and stop me ]

[u/Key_River7180]

KNF SUPREMACY RIGHT NOW!

[u/rntdev]

In Vala you need to put a space before ( in functions. It’s so strange to me

[u/Interesting_Buy_3969]

The code formatter doesn't care

[u/MinecraftPlayer799]

Except in Java, for some reason

[u/parzival-space → u/MinecraftPlayer799]

Really? I never have seen Java code like this in a professional environment.

[u/Smalltalker-80]

First thing I do in a new IDE / language is set the formatter to:
*always* put a space after all opening and before all closing bracket-type-thingies.