[Lazarus] Auto indentation
Jürgen Hestermann
juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Fri Nov 6 07:18:58 CET 2009
>> And that's something *I* don't like. You never know which END belongs
>> to wheach BEGIN. I always column align all ENDs to their corresponding
>> BEGINs.
> You missed the second part of my argumentation. I'm thinking in the
> superior Modula syntax, that does not require begin-end pairs around
> statement sequences.
I am not sure why you mention the Modula syntax. I thought we are
talking about Pascal here. And Pascal requires the begin-end pairs
(unless it is a single statement). And there is a logic behind it. I
always see directly which block is related to the IF (WHILE, REPEAT,
...) statement:
-----------------
if a then
begin
xxxxxx;
yyyyyy;
....
zzzzzz;
end;
aaaaa;
bbbbb;
ccccc;
-----------------
-----------------
if a then
xxxxxx;
aaaaa;
bbbbb;
ccccc;
-----------------
And if the statement or block is very short I can put the whole on one line:
-----------------
if a then begin xxxxxx yyyyyy .... zzzzzz end;
aaaaa;
bbbbb;
ccccc;
-----------------
-----------------
if a then xxxxxx;
aaaaa;
bbbbb;
ccccc;
-----------------
I *never* put deeper level commands/blocks on the same column (including
BEGIN/END) and I *always* align the BEGIN/ENDs. The BEGIN/ENDs delimit
the block and are part of it so IMO they should be treated the same as
all other commands of the block and be aligned with them.
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