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Is deep nesting of control flow in code a studied problem?
I made the case to coworkers that deep levels of control flow was harmful to the readability of code.
Example, taken from the relevant stack overflow question If you need more than 3 levels of ...
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Less code or less operation
Sometimes I hesitate between "More code to avoid unnecessary operations" and "less code but with redundant operations". Let me just take an example (Win32 API):
I try to paint some controls manually ...
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Python code style - blank lines in long list
I'm curious, is there a standard approach to dealing with long lists in the Python community, and in particular, is there any antipathy toward doing blank lines followed by comments to break up a ...
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What's the right balance between code consistency and code improvement?
Recently I had a discussion with a colleague regarding code style. He was arguing that your usage of APIs and the general patterns you are using should be as similar as possible with the surrounding ...
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Legitimate reasons for circular references in C++
I have project written in C++ that I am working on which has a parent-child relationship where each child has only one parent. I had previously decided after looking at this post that I would make the ...
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Formatting Dynamic Web Pages
A page built so that is has server side scripts implemented on the page.
Should indentation of the code be according to the server side logic (making it easier to read while coding) or according to ...
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Should methods always return from one place? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where did the notion of “one return only” come from?
I got into a little argument with a coworker about whether a method should be written like this:
public Thing ...
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“static” as a semantic clue about statelessness?
this might be a little philosophical but I hope someone can help me find a good way to think about this.
I've recently undertaken a refactoring of a medium sized project in Java to go back and add ...
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Question on refactoring and code design
Suppose, I have a class with a constant static final field. Then I want in certain situations that field to be different. It still can be final, because it should be initialized in constructor. My ...
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Using T[1] instead of T for functions overloaded for T(&)[N]
The asio::buffer function has (void*, size_t) and (PodType(&)[N]) overloads.
I didn't want to write ugly C-style (&x, sizeof(x)) code, so I wrote this:
SomePacket packet[1]; // SomePacket is ...
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Hiding away complexity with sub functions
I am having a discussion on code style, and it's starting to sound like a "matter of taste". I strongly believe otherwise, so I'm writing this to get your opinion and learn from your arguments for and ...
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How to make Eclipse code look like Sublime or Intellij, adding lines for code blocks? [closed]
I really like Eclipse, but I find that almost any other IDE or text editor has something that I can't find in Eclipse: a vertical line that indicates a code block.
Is there any plugin in, or option ...
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“how bad” is unrelated code in try-catch-finally block?
This is a related Q:
Is use of finally clause for doing work after return bad style/dangerous?
In the referenced Q, the finally code is related to the structure used and the necessity of ...
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What is your approach to multi-paradigm programming?
I have been learning some Ruby recently and I had the following experience.
I had written a small tool of about 200 lines of code and, as an inexperienced Ruby programmer, I had used several loops to ...
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How to camel-case where consecutive words have numbers?
Just wondering if anybody has a good convention to follow in this corner-corner-corner case. I really use Java but figured the C# folks might have some good insight too.
Say I am trying to name a ...
