How do you think about the flooding of bracket?

[Boris Wang]

The only non-OT response, thanks!

I think this is a serious problem, a language should be helpful to produce 
readable, maintainable codes, and,  restrict the production of non-readable, 
non-maintainable codes.


"Derek Parnell" <derek at psych.ward> 
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> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:37:41 +0800, Boris Wang wrote:
>
>> First, now, in a function of D, we can make netsted structure, nested
>> function and versioned code block, so much brackets, which are not code
>> block ,in the code sequence.
>>
>> Second, the use of colon and bracket for private/public, static and 
>> version
>> keyword, make the judge of access level and storage type is difficult.
>
>> ...
>
>> How do you think about all these ?
>
> I agree that the colon format for these qualifiers can lead to
> hard-to-maintain code because the scope of them is not as obvious. For 
> that
> reason alone I avoid using them. I only use the single statement format 
> and
> the braced format...
>
>  private int someVar;
>
>  static {
>     int foo;
>     int bar;
>  }
>
>
> -- 
> Derek
> (skype: derek.j.parnell)
> Melbourne, Australia
> "Down with mediocrity!"
> 16/06/2006 11:49:54 AM
>