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[Tower Ty]

Mike Wrote:

> On Sat, 10 May 2008 11:03:38 +0200, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> 
> > You've just made me feel incredibly stupid. That particular "Why in the
> > world did that never occur to me?" kind of stupid. My forehead still  
> > hurts
> > from the smack. ;)
> 
> :)
> 
> > I find that turning a single-statement if into a {} block when needed is
> > trivial enough of a change (almost second-nature) to justify keeping
> > single-statement if's in a nice compact {}-less form (unless the clause  
> > or
> > single-statement is long enough to be broken into multiple lines for
> > readability). But I'm really compulsive when it comes to code formatting
> > anyway (everything's gotta be "just so" or I can't focus, kinda like  
> > that TV
> > detective Monk, albiet far less severe ;) ).
> 
> Yeah, I hate it when Eclipse starts to put my case statements on the wrong  
> indentation level. That supports the theory that programmers often tend to  
> have a little trace of authism in their personality. Sometimes small  
> details can drive me mad and I spend lots of time formatting console  
> output so that it lines up neatly or stuff like that.
> 
> Another thing about Stdout debugging: it's nice to define an alias for  
> Stdout in a debug { } block and use that alias for debug messages,  
> preferably in a module that's used everywhere in a project. I do that  
> since once, back in my C++ days, one of my "in here" couts went into  
> production - the alias prevents that.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
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If you are proud of your work its job satisfaction to clean it up and pretty up the output.

Can you explain the debug{} a bit more please  Mike . What does that look like and how is it used?