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TB RPGs Are Slightly Difficult

Posted by Taizen Chisou on March 28, 2012, 8:35 a.m.

> wake up

> "oh i know maybe i can retool the ricerca strano engine today"

oh yeah that's right i hate modifying this game

Comments

firestormx 12 years, 9 months ago

Yes. That is for small statements that don't hold much weight when analyzing code. Such as being used to catch things like:

if (number < minimum)

{number = minimum;}

I'm not saying do things like

if (number<minimum)
{
number = minimum;
//don't indent, lolol
}

Cesque 12 years, 9 months ago

Quote:

As long as you're not saying indentation should replace curly braces, it's all good. =D

I hated Python for having no curly braces but now I fucking love it.

Because if you're forced to use indentation (whether by the language itself or by "it's good practice" bullies), curly braces are completely unnecessary and a waste of two lines of visual space. I don't really see not being able to orient yourself in the code any less than when using curly braces.

I also don't get your example:

Quote:

if (colour == red)

{print red;}

else

{print blue;}

The Python code for this would be exactly as long (4 lines), except with indentation instead of curly braces.

And Python does allow you to put a number of operations in one line IIRC (not sure about if statements). It's just that nobody does it because it looks bad.

firestormx 12 years, 9 months ago

Yeah, that was a really bad example.

But curly braces do help me visualize stuff (particularly with editors brace highlighting/jump to end/etc), especially when you didn't write the code, and the code is very long and complex with a lot of nesting (my job is Quality Assurance, so I look through code).

It just makes things much more contained, for me, and minimizes the chance of mistakes.

Rob 12 years, 9 months ago

Quote: Cesque

The Python code for this would be exactly as long (4 lines), except with indentation instead of curly braces.

So would the code in other languages too…..

if (colour == red)
       printf("red");
else
       printf("blue");

That's the C/C++ version of it.

if (colour == red)
       System.out.print("red");
else
       System.out.print("blue");

…and there's the Java version… etc… etc…