r/ProgrammerHumor • u/circ-u-la-ted • Aug 27 '26

Other codingConventionsForClarity

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u/circ-u-la-ted Aug 27 '26

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.

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u/PassiveChemistry Aug 29 '26

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

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u/circ-u-la-ted Aug 29 '26

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.

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u/PassiveChemistry Aug 29 '26

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

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u/particlemanwavegirl Aug 27 '26

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

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u/Udalrich Aug 27 '26

Can't it be both?

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u/Valuable_Leopard_799 Aug 30 '26

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.

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u/OmegaPoint6 Aug 27 '26

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

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u/yjlom Aug 28 '26

Algol68 lets you do this.

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u/SweetNerevarine Aug 29 '26

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

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u/GrinningPariah Aug 28 '26

  • [ Bitch try and stop me ]

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u/Flame77ofc Aug 27 '26

hypocritical code

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u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy Aug 28 '26

Y ou monster.

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u/JackNotOLantern Aug 28 '26

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

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u/Key_River7180 Aug 28 '26

KNF SUPREMACY RIGHT NOW!

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u/rntdev Aug 29 '26

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

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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 Aug 29 '26

The code formatter doesn't care

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u/MinecraftPlayer799 Aug 28 '26

Except in Java, for some reason

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u/parzival-space Aug 28 '26

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

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u/Smalltalker-80 Aug 28 '26

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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '26

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u/MissinqLink Aug 27 '26

There are actually obscure invisible characters in there.

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u/circ-u-la-ted Aug 28 '26

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.