5 Responses to “Delphi coding style”

1. ziolko says:

   February 12, 2008 at 10:02 am

   hmm formating of this if condition got scrambled, but it’s really hard to understand when you see it

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2. ziolko says:

   February 12, 2008 at 10:02 am

   I’ve seen many discussions about coding style, of course I have my own style but whenever I join new company I have to use their style.
   It never was a problem for me until recently, I just can’t get used to it. here’s little sample:

   if ( (not FUsePrinter)
   or ( (FUsePrinter)
   and (dlgPrint.Execute)
   )
   ) then
   begin

   also they put blank line before any keyword (for, while, begin, if, case…)
   moreover they use:

   if … then
   begin
   …
   end
   else
   begin
   …
   end;

   everytime even with single line between begin/end.

   I gouess I’ll pass this article to my manager:)

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3. ciuly says:

   February 13, 2008 at 9:02 pm

   seems you’re not used to forums, eh? 🙂 you can use BBCode for text formatting 😉 like the "code" code.
   like this:
   [code:1:1329c576dc]
   if ( (not FUsePrinter)
   or ( (FUsePrinter)
   and (dlgPrint.Execute)
   )
   ) then
   begin
   [/code:1:1329c576dc]
   also they put blank line before any keyword (for, while, begin, if, case…)
   moreover they use:
   [code:1:1329c576dc]
   if … then
   begin
   …
   end
   else
   begin
   …
   end;
   [/code:1:1329c576dc]

   and yes, there are a lot of styles out there which are just plain … let’s say ugly 😀

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4. ziolko says:

   February 14, 2008 at 8:02 am

   heh yeah that’s true I’m not used to forums:)

   as far as I’m concerned coding style may be ugly as long as I can easily read without wondering what going on:)
   putting blank lines is another stupidty, I wrote some procedure which was 8 or 9 lines but after aplying their rules it doesn’t fit on screen.
   Nightmare!

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5. ciuly says:

   April 22, 2008 at 11:04 am

   here’s another good link: http://www.econos.de/delphi/cs.html

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