I'm of mixed feelings with vertical alignment of things on separate lines where the lines are indented to the same level. I often won't bother but sometimes do and even (sometimes reluctantly) admit that such can make the code easier to read, though I find that it can clearly be taken too far. For example, lining up punctuation just boggles me even though I've seen code like this: 

    my $i               = 1               ;
    my $maxPercentDebit = 100.0+($i/100.0);
    $i               = int                ( $i               );
    $maxPercentDebit = normalizePercentage( $maxPercentDebit );

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But I really hate lining up indentation of a line to match the length of code on a previous line. So I'll often rewrite code such as: 

    $maxPercentDebit = normalizePercentage( $i,
                                            $maxPercentDebit );

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to something more like 

    $maxPercentDebit = normalizePercentage(
        $i,
        $maxPercentDebit );

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(especially assuming a much longer list of arguments such that it doesn't make sense to group the arguments into a single line).

I even prefer to treat () more like {} and write: 

    $maxPercentDebit = normalizePercentage(
        $i,
        $maxPercentDebit,
    );

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and in C where the extra trailing comma isn't tollerated, I'd really like to use: 

    maxPercentDebit = normalizePercentage(
          i
        , maxPercentDebit
    );

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but hold no hope of getting any of my current cow orkers to see the beauty in that. (:

- tye        

In reply to Re^6: My coding guidelines (utopian) by tye
in thread My coding guidelines by Abigail-II

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