[squeak-dev] Manual line breaks in code

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sat Apr 2 13:51:47 UTC 2022


Hi

> On 2. Apr 2022, at 13:55, <christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> <christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> > Yes please. If someone wants to format comments differently, then pretty print it any way you like. Shout might be good for doing that.
> 
> +1. I'd just argue that inserting linebreaks via pretty print is significantly easier than removing them.
> 
> > It just does not have a readable shape.
> 
> So would you be fine some kind of MaximumCompositionWidthAttribute that your Shout could apply to any comment in the source code? :-)

Not at all. Just leave my linebreaks alone.
I don't pretend to be a better Knuth-Plass but please don't force
an algorithm on prose I write…

> 
> > When possible, we should allow all styles.
> 
> Yes, ping-pong commits are bad, but inconsistency isn't beautiful, either. I think we still are missing a proper pretty-printer that fits everyone's individual needs and can release us from debates like this one. :D
> 
> Best,
> Christoph
> 
> PS: Please find another very typical argument against pre-formatted text with manual linebreaks in the attachment. It's really annoying to me. :-)


Well, it was obviously written with a larger width in mind.
The solution is: make the window wider.

Most the text we have has insufficient margins anyway…

-t

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> On 2022-04-02T11:34:36+02:00, lecteur at zogotounga.net wrote:
> 
> > > There are a lot of things that might be done to improve the
> > > quality and quantity of comments in Squeak. Messing around with
> > > line break characters in other people's comments is not one of
> > > those things. Please just don't.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > Comments in Squeak are wonderfully simple: just write whatever you want 
> > wherever you want. Comment out whatever chunk of code, anywhere, easily. 
> > Prepare code in comment to be used only within a debugger - there are 
> > many ways to play with the comments syntax. Please do not take this 
> > simplicity and the freedom it allows away from us, and remember that no 
> > two coders have the same pratices and preferences. When possible, we 
> > should allow all styles.
> > 
> > Stef
> > 
> > 
> ["manualLinebreaks.png"]<manualLinebreaks.png>




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