[squeak-dev] Re: Code formatting patterns

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 14:43:44 UTC 2013


>> My gripe with [:each | each doSomething] is that word-selection then includes the colon, which is a pain when you want to Command+h, Command+g it.
>
> Now that sounds like it would be easy to fix, no? We should fix the tools, not work around them.

I happen to like whitespace around variable declarations.  Bert your
partisanship is really interesting -- how you declare what I'm doing
as "working around it", but "fixing the tools" is not.  As if crowded
code is the ultimate goal.

>>  Plus, [: each | each doSomething] is consistent with method signatures, an anonymous selector.
>
> Emerson's quote regarding consistency applies. Sorry, could not resist ;)

Cheap shot.


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