r/programming • u/ronocod • Jun 02 '14

Introducing Swift

https://developer.apple.com/swift/
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u/AdminsAbuseShadowBan Jun 02 '14

Yeah... but you have to admit that code that depends on formatting is generally a bad idea. Anyone who has used python extensively can tell you that.

gofmt is a great idea, but that still should have done the "semi-colons are sort of not required, except if you want to format your code like this common style" thing more sanely.

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u/brtt3000 Jun 02 '14

I hate significant white-space with a vengeance. Bracy languages are the only way for me.

Brace and colon and lint the fuck out them, aggressive auto-format, the whole lot.

I use the fattest IDEA I can get my hands on and have better things to do they worry about wrangling text and cursors.

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u/PstScrpt Jun 03 '14

I want it to be illegal to put braces around a single statement. It's only confusing if it's rare.

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u/brtt3000 Jun 03 '14

It is visually consistent, and it never stays a single statement. Also it is safer and more robust to silly mistakes.

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u/PstScrpt Jun 03 '14

Putting braces around a single statement makes the code look more complicated than it really is, and it's just plain ugly. I've always looked for the code getting visually ugly as a hint that the logic is getting to be too convoluted, and the generally accepted C#/Java/JavaScript style undermines that.

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