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[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Amateur! I use coments so it looks like this:

function main(){ /tab/if(fish==2){ /tab//tab/console.log("i need help"); /tab/} }

[–] Bishma@readit.buzz 3 points 1 year ago

TIL you can turn any language into Brainf**k with the right .vimconfig.

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
int mostCursedIndentation (const int someVal) @safe {
{}{}if (someVal < 0) {
{}{}{}{}throw new Exception ("Value cannot be negative!");
{}{}}
{}{}return someVal * 5 - 3;
}

[–] vvv@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i dont wanna talk about the lua version of this

local function someFunction(arg)
do end local SomeLocal = 40;
do end if arg > SomeLocal then
do end do end SomeLocal = Somelocal + arg
do end elseif arg < SomeLocal then
do end do end arg = arg * 2
do end do end if SomeLocal > arg then
do end do end do end error("oh my god why are you trying to read this")
do end do end end
do end end
do end return SomeLocal
end

someFunction(-0.3000000000000124976137894613978561389741642978623178913786926473891)

[–] cloaker@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nevemsenki@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He has already left the chat

[–] soft_frog@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you start randomly nest them too?

{{}}{}int foo = bar

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You made it even worse!

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 1 points 1 year ago

Highly readable

[–] thkruz@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...this...this can't be real...no one is that much of a sadist are they?

This whole thread is what nightmares are made of.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

So at my work we've implemented a automatic code formatter. Instead of having discussions about the process of changing the configuration file we just put it up on GitHub. I think I might have found a fun April fool's prank.

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I just want Coke to bring back Tab and Pepsi to introduce a competing drink called Space

[–] PitzNR@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is horrifying, this is straight up blaspheny

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For real. OP needs to give up on this ridiculous notion of tabbed whitespace and learn to use real, monospaced indentation. How wide is a tab? OP couldn't tell you because tabs are inherently dishonest -- a lie concocted by big keyboard to poison the unwashed programmer masses.

[–] xyon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tabs are one tab character wide, it's perfect

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

You're one character wide

[–] gnuswann@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I meant for my personal projects. For the code that only I see, tabs are much better for navigation. But it's true that if there are several of us working on the project, the spaces are much better.

[–] lasagna@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

3 spaces is best because if the universe is chaos then everything in it should reflect that.

[–] soundasleep@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm more about increasing spaces exponentially to really highlight how important each line is

public boolean function() {
 if (method()) {
   if (otherMethod()) {
       for (Object o : list()) {
               if (o.isAlive()) {
                               return false;
               }
       }
   }
 }
 return true;
}

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Use the Fibonacci series so you can smugly claim your code incorporates the gold ratio

[–] Xanvial@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Tempiz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

An absolute mad lad

[–] Speiser0@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

If people want me to write into my code what it does, I guess I'll label everything:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdint>

#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-label"

int main()
{
A:int a = 4;
B:if ((uintptr_t)&a & 0x100)
BA:std::cout << "hi" << std::endl; else
BB:std::cout << "hello" << std::endl;
C:return 0;
}

Note that this is much better for code style because - as opposed to the semicolon indentation- the single statement if and else branches still work. The trailing else is on the same line on purpose, it's so small it doesn't need its own line. Here's another style with similar properties:

[[,]]int a = 4;
[[,]]if ((uintptr_t)&a & 0x100)
[[,,]]std::cout << "hi" << std::endl; else
[[,]]std::cout << "hello" << std::endl;
[[,]]return 0;
[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I know why it's there, but it still annoys me that there's a semicolon on the last line