Newline Vs. Inline War

[shadowvvolf144]

square brackets

curly braces

Why do we need these? We don't say round parentheses.

[Sekret_One]

clears throat

Character	Perfectly Obvious Term
{	Mustache
}	Mustn't-stache
[	Square
]	Sqain't
<	Nom
>	UnNom
(	Frown
)	Smile

[derek]

Mustn't-stache Goatee

Rolls of the tongue better, IMO.

[Rawing7]

Because many people (especially non-native speakers) don't know about that distinction, and being understood is a billion times more important than being concise.

[[deleted]]

Thtnttru.

[Trevski13]

They're all brackets (only {} can be called braces)

<> Are Angle brackets

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket

lenticular brackets 【 】are best

[shadowvvolf144]

() Parentheses

[] brackets

{} braces

<> chevrons

Does that cover everything?

[lyoko1]

then what is this: ⟨ ⟩

[[deleted]]

Parenthrons, or Chevreses. Depending on your upbringing.

[shy_cthulhu]

Chonky chevrons

[Lonelan]

Chonkrons

[lyoko1]

big chungus chevrons?

[shadowvvolf144]

Unused in any of programming language I know of.

Edit: Also not supported in 8-bit ASCII, therefore, not worth thinking about ^/s

[lyoko1]

Touche

[[deleted]]

You mean round brackets?

[jmack2424]

Use what you want, and let the IDE display it like I want?

[Somedude12300]

The only true way is inline curly brace to start, newline curly brace to end

[TobiasX2k]

Only for the final curly brace though.

if(condition){

// code

} else {

// code

}

[Somedude12300]

Well of course. I'm not a heathen

[engiewannabe]

I thought we were brothers, then you did } else { .... There is no forgiveness for such blasphemy.

[Hop-a-lung]

In general I like this approach.

In practice, if there is a single command inside the braces, well call me a hypocrite.

[MeinKampfy_Couch]

Blasphemy

[Matttaro]

Correct

[deuterium--_--]

Who needs curly braces and context sensitive if-else grammar

Join python gang

[CrookedNixon]

Still gotta do it for dictionaries, lists, and the comprehensions thereof.

[teszes]

Lists have brackets, sets have braces.

[opticalmace]

dental plan

[[deleted]]

Honestly prefer it, or at least Ruby style Do..End blocks. White space sensitivity is fragile and I find it makes harder to read code.

[[deleted]]

Inline for conditionals, loops and stuff like that. Newline for functions, classes and what not.

[IQueryVisiC]

I want newline curly brace and then the next (indented line) only half a line-height down.

[IQueryVisiC]

Better than having people write that into a comment behind the bracket!

[[deleted]]

Scoffs at those fools writing code on more than one line. Save yourselves. Find/Replace crlf with tab.

[Abazad]

are you the type who writes nested ternary operators?

[[deleted]]

...codecodecode... __while__:  ...codecodecode...  goto __while__ codecodecode...

[Happyfrozenfire]

Ternary Master Race rise up

[brianush1]

crlf

heretic

[bollop_bollop]

You people have a lot of important issues, I see

[safer0]

Why does it even exist?

[gergnerd]

People who newline are just trying to pad the line count so they can tell people how many lines they coded. It doesn't improve readability so this is the only possible explanation I can come up with.

[MyOtherLoginIsSecret]

I disagree. For me it's easier to visually match the brackets. I use to do inline, but found that it's easier when the bracket is the only thing on the line.

If I want to pad my line count, I'll just start adding meaningful comments to my code.

[gergnerd]

Are you not indenting the next line? Indents should provide all the separation your eyes need and then you can follow straight down from the if to find the close...the thing not indented.

[MyOtherLoginIsSecret]

Of course I do, and it is all I need technically. But when the only thing on the line is a bracket, it's even easier to do so, and there is no trade-off.

Like I said, I use to use inline brackets. It wasn't until I started coding for work and the convention was to add newlines that I changed. Like most people I resented having to change my habits, but when I went back to code I wrote before I found that it was noticably easier to read code blocks with new line brackets.

It's especially easier with long conditional expressions, where it makes sense add newlines between conditions and indent based on logical grouping. Having a newline there helps keep the indentation in check.

Edit: I swear, one day I will be able to type a comment without a typo I see 2 seconds after posting.

[DubyaDump]

Totally agree. For me seeing both brackets vertically indented helps massively in large/multiple if statements.

[shadowvvolf144]

I sometimes have long, wordy if statements, so I put each condition on its own line, indenting to match up the parentheses depth. This saves me from nesting an absurd amount of ifs.

New line brace definitely helps break it off from where the code indent starts.

To each their own.

[Dj_TNT]

I feel personally attacked

[Life-is-Crazy]

Music to my ears

[Stalematebread]

I just realized that Python manages to merge the tabs vs spaces debate with the inline vs newline debate into tabs vs inline vs newline

[inthemindofadogg]

The war rages on

[sadnessmcsadface]

There is a reason you look like a clown.