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• wgs@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Like that ?

  struct Ident arr = [
  {
  .id
  = 0,
  .name
  = "Bob",
  .pubkey
  = "",
  .privkey
  = ""
  },
  {
  .id
  = 1,
  name
  = "Alice",
  .pubkey
  = "",
  .privkey
  = ""
  }
  ]
  

  Man you’re a genius ;)

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  • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not like that, lol

    Just saying, instead of this monstrosity

    CreateOrderRequest(user,
                       productDetails,
                       pricingCalculator,
                       order => order.internalNumber)
    

    Just use

    CreateOrderRequest(
        user,
        ...
    

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    • wgs@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When I talk about alignment it’s not about function arguments, but values, “=” signs and such. You simply cannot use tabs for that because alignment must be fixed and indentation independent:

      CreateOrderRequest(
          user,
          productDetails.     => order.detail,
          pricingCalculator. => DEFAULT_CALCULATOR,
          order                      => order.internalNumber)
      

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      • realharo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I normally avoid that too, I find it hurts readability more than helps, plus a proper IDE will separate it by color anyway.

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      • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This kind of “manual” alignment should be avoided for many reasons including the fact that adding/removing/changing of one parameter here may force you to modify multiple lines which on it’s own is annoying but this will also show up in the diff during review making it harder to grep what was actually changed.

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      • catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah I agree I don’t find alignment very useful. It’s more work for dubious benefit, and god forbid you change one of the lines.

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People seem to have a real issue with using new lines and I’ve never quite understod why.

      It feels like a lot of those people are using notepad like applications instead of coding focused ones with collapsible regions etc.

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  • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The way god indented.

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I almost scrolled past this one

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• milo128@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  seconded on not aligning things. its the whole source of the problem in the first place and doesnt even serve a purpose

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  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It does help with reducing thrashing between edits in git diffs. Or rather, opinionated autoformatters do, which is the only reason I bother with alignment.

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