rules aren't there to be enforced, they're there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.
Why is multiple levels of indentation bad?
IDK, but if the reason is "to break stuff into multiple functions", then I'm not necessarily writing yet another single-use function just to avoid writing a comment, especially in time critical applications. Did that with a text parser that could get text formatting from a specifically written XML file, but mainly due to it being way less time critical, and had a lot of reused code via templates.
While I totally agree with that philosophy, it heavily depends on the language.
For Rust, my philosophy is more like this:
- Impl + fn body don't count, as well as async blocks if they span the whole function
- do not nest more than one if statement. You probably better using guard clauses or matches
- do not put loops into an if statement.
- do not nest loops unless clearly shown to be (X, Y) indexing
- method chaining is free
- do not nest closures, unless the nested closure doesn't have a {} block
- do not use mod unless it's test for the current module. No I don't want to Star Wars scroll your 1000 line file. Split it.
Broad generalizations aren't for the people who make them, they're for the suckers who consistently fall for them
My personal code readability axe to grind is nested complex ternary operators.
Every now and then I'll see something like this
return (checkFormatType(currentObject.type==TYPES.static||currentObject type==TYPES.dynamic?TYPES.mutable:TYPES.immutable)?create format("MUTABLE"):getFormat(currentObject));And I have a fucking conniption because just move that shit into a variable before the return. I get it when sometimes you just need to resolve something inline, but a huge amount of the time that ternary can be extracted to a variable before the ternary, or just rewrite the function to take multiple types and resolve it in the function.
This posts entire comment chain is an interesting example of people that have extensive knowledge in completely different areas of programming to me. And have some concepts I had never heard/thought of.
You get one level at the get go because everything is in a function. So just two levels of indentation? A pretty basic if.. for..if nesting has to be refactored? Into what? Goto? Should I sprinkle return statements all over the place?
Y’all gotta understand that Linus is often kind of an ass.
He obviously meant 13, because 3 is WTF 😭
SCSS go brrrr
