Clean Coding

[rcmaehl]

As guinness pointed out, we all have our own little foibles - but the majority of the long-term members here have pretty easy-to-follow coding styles. Perhaps take a look at their work and see if there are tips for your own scripts.

M23

That I will do.

[czardas]

One of my coding foibles is I generally align two dimensional array elements neatly on the page. This allows me to quickly locate elements to fix errors or alter things. In fact adding underscore will slow the script down ever so slightly, but it's a trade off. Example here:

[MvGulik]

Foibles ... ?

Definition: personal imperfection

Synonyms: characteristic, defect, eccentricity, failing, fault, frailty, idiosyncrasy, infirmity, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, shortcoming, singularity, vice, weak point, weakness

Aha. Where talking humans here.

Ban monospaced fonts in coding. ... No more wasting time trying to lineup code stuff ... or cursing at Tidy for messing it up again. (Although UDF function docs kinda look funny with it.)

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It's life Jim, but not as we know it

Edited December 5, 2011 by MvGulik

[czardas]

Everyone has foibles, unless your name is Spock.

Capt. Kirk: You'd make a splendid computer, Mr Spock.

Spock: That is very kind of you, Captain!

Edited December 5, 2011 by czardas

[Chimaera]

I'm quite anal about variable names or getting more so as the scripts start getting better and bigger, and the comment about add comments as you progress is something im starting to do now as well as i cant remember what the feck i was doing a month later when i pick it up again.

Edited December 5, 2011 by Chimaera

[rcmaehl]

I find myself using a $Label[label number here] array and the like when my programs start getting big to cut down on variables.