Why would anyone seriously want to use curly braces to denote scope? Surely significant indentation, or implicit scope based on the surrounding keywords, is far superior.
Also consider this: every time you wish to enter { or }, you must hold down the shift key. That is one extra wasted keypress per scopening and sclosing.
And it just looks messy, like a spastic has been scribbling nonsense all over your screen.
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Anonymous2008-04-21 17:13
a spastic has been scribbling nonsense all over your screen.
>>8
I know what you meant, you windowlicking cumslurper.
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Anonymous2008-04-21 17:25
() > {}
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Anonymous2008-04-21 17:35
>>1
Pythonista >>2,3
same person and we have been trolled constantly >>4,5,8
Haskellite trollee >>6,7,10
Troll >>9
Seppler >>11
Lisper
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92008-04-21 17:38
>>12
You are incorrect, I am a Seshrupper. Also, stop trolling me.
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112008-04-21 17:42
>>12
You are incorrect, I am a Pythonista. Also, stop trolling me.
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Anonymous2008-04-21 17:45
Any language you can't do things like
[cod€]if (!connected(node1, node2));
alternative_algorithm = 1; [/code]
Isn't worth coding in. Remember, every time you trip your fellow programmers up, they're reminded that you're smarter than they are.
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Anonymous2008-04-21 17:46
>>15
Oh my. I don't think I've ever failed at BBCode quite this way before.
>>32 HOW DARE YOU MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH EXPERT PROGRAMMERS, #1) you can't even use IRC well; #2) you can't tab-complete; #3) you can't google - this implies yer too busy jerking off and sucking soda or video-gaming. Die well, kid
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Anonymous2008-04-22 9:37
I like braces, they help you to know where each statement starts and ends.
I always put the curly brace under function and class, but put it to the right of for, while, if, etc.
I also use style 3 of indentation.
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Anonymous2008-04-22 9:40
>>34
Then you might as well not bother having curly braces if you use a consistent style of indentation.
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Anonymous2008-04-22 18:56
C style dialects are made of fail. The suck-tax just make it easier on parsers, not on the programmers.
Brackets, case sensativity etc. All fail.
if(..){
}
vs
If .. Then
End If
Oh noes! I typed 9 extra charachters! Well, actually if you aren't using some fail IDE you can specify an if statement in 3 charachters.
Public Class Nigger
Public Function Faggot() As String
Return "I'm a huge nigger faggot!" & _
" Oh, and semicolons are also fail, when we can" & _
" do multiline statements with UNDERSCORES!"
End Function
End Class
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Anonymous2008-04-22 19:26
>>36
Extra keywords are just a poor substitute for having a way to group code.
You are correct. Semicolons are huge fail. Multiline statements are the exception not the rule. So forcing one to type a semicolon after every line, when only a few of their lines are going to be multiline is true fail.
The extra keywords at least have an explicit meaning. Where braces have no meaning other than something is ending (the starting brace does have an obvious meaning as it follows the keyword of whatever is starting). If you want to make it convey an obvious meaning (as in what exactly it is ending) you need combine it with spacing, or another popular trick is to use comments, fail). Python has shown us that spacing can be used to group code, and it does so without the braces because the spacing inherent to braces makes the braces redundant.
The only language where braces make sense is JavaScript on a webpage because of download performance concerns.
Public Class Nigger
Public Function Faggot() As String
Return "I'm a huge nigger faggot!" & _
" Oh, and semicolons are also fail, when we can" & _
" do multiline statements with UNDERSCORES!"
End Function
Public Sub DickButt(ByVal OP As Poster)
If OP = FAGGOT Then
MessageBox.Show("God damn I'm a faggot! And look" & _
", the same symbol for testing equality as the" & _
" one for assignment, based on where in the code" & _
" it appears! Fuck yeah DeVry University expert" & _
" programming degree!",
"EXPERT PROGRAMMER OP", MessageBoxButtons.OK, _
MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation)
End If
End Sub
End Class