Comments on: Speed Up Your Debugging by Creating a Personal Coding Style

By: Nick Wiggill

Nick Wiggill — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:47:13 +0000

That thing is an abomination. As Linus Torvalds so aptly described it, “Brain Damaged”.

It’s always nice to see the big names using such simple terms

By: MichaelJWilliams

MichaelJWilliams — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:54:22 +0000

Aha, I see, I hadn’t noticed that. At least you didn’t accuse him of using Hungarian notation. Call me crazy but I think he may have minded that

By: Nick Wiggill

Nick Wiggill — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:46:49 +0000

Hmm, mostly. I was just looking at the EntityContainer class he wrote, where he uses this...

"package com.urbansquall.serenity { import flash.utils.Dictionary;

public class EntityContainer..."

at the top of the script. But I think you're right actually, I've unfairly pinned the use of evil indentation on innocent ol' Urbs!

By: MichaelJWilliams

MichaelJWilliams — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:36:01 +0000

Yeah I much prefer Allman style… but I’m confused, isn’t that what UrbanSquall uses?

By: Nick Wiggill

Nick Wiggill — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:19:11 +0000

Yeah, Urban’s conventions are good except for one or two little things.

BTW I still cannot stand 1TSB and KNF indent style, though (which he uses, although in a neater variation than many I’ve seen). I mean come on people, what is so difficult about lining up your braces? Do you not see that this benefits you? Allman style indentation is One True Style, and what I learnt C++ in at college. It also happens to be very similar to Kernigan & Ritchie style (the creators of the C language and ultimately the guys who defined most of todays ECMA-style language like Java, AS, even PHP)… you’d think they’d know what they were doing, right?

Excuse the rant.

By: MichaelJWilliams

MichaelJWilliams — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:22:28 +0000

@ellison: Yeah urbansquall is great! Gamepoetry is an awesome site all around, actually.

@Brian: Haha, glad I didn’t go with my original title, “Guys, my coding style is awesome and you should all use it”.

@Didds: That’s actually intentional I originally wrote “with respect to x” but changed it to t for… some reason. I’ll make it “time” instead so that it reads better.

By: Didds

Didds — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:17:49 +0000

Cool advice One thing though, there’s a random “t” near the top… Just thought I should mention it xD

“differentiating something with respect to t or “

By: Brian Yamabe

Brian Yamabe — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:05:12 +0000

I hate your coding style I probably use the antithesis of everything you do, except precise function names. But I couldn’t agree with you more.

Make the style your own and evolve it as necessary. If you’re working on shared code, use the style that already exists so you don’t confuse the reader.

By: ellison

ellison — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:39:50 +0000

wow, after reading about urbansquall coding, I found out about the boolean part where they use isPlayerActive. It makes sense to me as well to use it as variable boolean. It came to me naturally.

By: ellison

ellison — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:33:28 +0000

yup, I used the second one which is having the first bracket below the :void. I learned this from tutorial and I found it easier to read.

Shorter variables is for optimized codes.

I used to write if(isActive), now I think I would use the later one haha.

You are right about this, since if you would want someone to help you debug your code, it would be easier for the person to understand if the code lacks of comments.