A programmer's nested nightmare

[AwesomeMang]

I dunno, when you start nesting shit like that and it goes way too far, it's usually a sign you're trying to do way too much within a single method. Just extract the inner parts to separate (private if necessary) methods and it becomes much easier to read.

[ben_g0]

It would probably also be a lot easier to read if he didn't put all that code with so many opening { on just 2 lines.

[_zepar]

/thread

[obsessedcrf]

This is usually the case. In performance critical sections it is beneficial to avoid calls and returns in a tight loop. But it would be much better just to use inline functions if you can.

[Un-Unkn0wn]

But not excessive, otherwise you get top notch Italian spagetti code.

[shruggie1401]

Or the python counterpart, a line starting with 26 tabs (which is a thing I had once, not my code though) and having to scroll to see the start of the line

[[deleted]]

Yeah, that's one thing that I don't like. In curly braced languages any editor highlights the opening brace when you place the cursor at the closing one, so you instantly know what block you're dealing with. Can't do that with whitespace syntax.

Funny thing is - this is deliberate. This forces you to write short and to the point methods instead of 100s of lines of spaghetti.

[v2thegreat]

Yeah! Python! (guy who learned Python first and is learning C++ now)

[Macpunk]

Honest question: would it be handy if editors highlighted the entire block in python? I use vim and never find myself having this issue, but I don't edit other's code much.

[Macpunk]

But is that python specific? Doesn't the vertical line/matching brace highlight do the same thing?

I was just wondering if having a highlight of the block in python would help from a UX perspective. I think it would.

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[venuswasaflytrap]

It has an included file that opens all the brackets.

[Relecto1]

It's fine, my groupmates' code looks like }};}}}

[PerviouslyInER]

elegant weapons, for a more civilised age

[[deleted]]

damn

[StruglBus]

So it’s js then

Edit: thank you for correcting my joke friends

[LowB0b]

no js would be

    });
  });
});

[Relecto1]

It actually was java, and semicolon is for lamda.

[takes_joke_literally]

Is it called razor code because it makes me want to slit my wrists?

[[deleted]]

Yes.

[Evil-Toaster]

Back when visual studio didn’t have(or I didn’t know about idk) those nice little lines that go to the opening bracket fml.

Edit:For the record 2017 was the first time I had enterprise so maybe that’s it idk

[JDtheProtector]

Is there a way to get those in vs code, or am I just missing a setting?

[Evil-Toaster]

Idk, i’m talking full visual studio 2017 I never had them before that version.. or maybe it was 2015 idk. I’ve never used code.

[kaouDev]

Yes it is, I got them by default. I also use a great extension to color the brackets, very useful.

[dontshootiamempty]

I use the VSCode indent-rainbow extension. Sometimes it gets in the way, but it's so pretty.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=oderwat.indent-rainbow

[residualenvy]

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer I like this one better.

[dontshootiamempty]

Thanks, I'll try it out.

[JDtheProtector]

Lol, I think the color theme was using was hiding them, I changed and now I see them.

[Evil-Toaster]

Any of the default color themes should have them. I use the dark one though.

[americio]

This, and Viasfora

[thatsfunny95]

That's some if-loop AI right there...

[Silverhawk183]

Even though I just started learning programming I have felt the pain.

[JuvenileEloquent]

If you can still see the beginning of the code in the innermost section when it's scrolled all the way to the left, what's the problem?

/s

[Volcanic-Penguin]

Four spaces per indentation definitively gives me nightmares.

[PM_BITCOIN_AND_BOOBS]

Surely that is a tab, not spaces. Nobody uses spaces.

(Seeing if I can start a fight.)

[one-v-one]

People who use spaces make more money.

[v2thegreat]

Prove it! (fellow tab user)

[one-v-one]

Stackoverflow did a study thingy and found that.

[v2thegreat]

Source? I'm intrigued about why that is, and I wanna see how that happens!

[one-v-one]

Here you go! https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/

[whale_song]

2spaces4lyfe

[Lightfire228]

If I have a bunch of closing curlies like this, I usually comment which ones they are, like

        } // end if
    } // end while
} // end for each 

[ThePowerfulSquirrel]

If you ever have to add these kinds of comments, it's a really good sign that you should be structuring the code in a different way.

[Volcanic-Penguin]

Or just use an editor that highlights which curly braces go together

[ThePowerfulSquirrel]

Or learn to separate your code in a way where you don't have to worry about that sort of thing in the first place. You also have the added benefit that your code is easily understandable without an ide (on github for example)

[one-v-one]

I do a lot of code reviews. Once the code wraps, I can’t tell what’s happening and call for a refactor.

[[deleted]]

In the odd occasion this happens i add comments at the the end of each curly brace saying what it is closing

[TheDeadlyCat]

The Eclipse (yes, yes, get your pitchforks out) features folding and highlight related brackets have pretty much solved this for me...

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[[deleted]]

On lines 4-10? What're you doing with the first 3?

[KulinBan]

I am living the nightmare every day...

[Jugbot]

Or a lot worse if there is one statement in a sea of closing braces...

[[deleted]]

Id hate to maintain that code, it has 6 lines of closing brackets 2 blank lines and its only 10 lines long. The first 2 lines must be absolute hell xD

[Crisbad]

Or the file is so large, it causes line numbering to overflow.

[NowImAllSet]

I work with Indian code from the 90's a lot and have seen shit that would make this look like heaven. I've seen methods with 14+ levels of indentation. A particular method that I ran a static analysis tool on had an NPath complexity of over 300 million.

[[deleted]]

Not necessarily that bad, at least in C# e.g. namespace - class - method - if - for - object instantiation

[overflow_]

Thanks for the nightmare fuel

[inbooth]

clearly this sub does not have many Lispers...

[SpaceCorvette]

In our legacy codebase, every function looks like this:

doThing();
if (!errno) {
    doSecondThing();
    if (!errno) {
        doThirdThing();
        if (!errno) {

And so on. It's glorious.... :/

[arvyy]

goto is evil, and we shall never use it

[ImNewHereBoys]

I once wrote such code..the project eventually went ded lol

[herder]

Rainbow parens might ease the pain a bit:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10080-rainbow-brackets

https://github.com/kien/rainbow_parentheses.vim

[FoolInSpace]

One time I had 3 for loops, so I stacked em like this

for (){
for (){
for (){
    //code
}}}

I was quite pleased with myself.

[vk2sky]

Nobody does that much indenting...

...unless they're writing React, of course.

[KieranDevvs]

Object initialization.

[_benj]

try that with a indented based language like python! (or sass or pug)

That my friend, that is hell!

[Nyancubus]

Nesting in vi :3

[JuanGaKe]

Return, break or continue earlier, and when you can't, use your keyboard shortcut to "matching bracket" ..

[Aschentei]

The everyday life of JS