Coding style

[florent.revelut]

EDIT: Coding style discussion from thread "file size":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/4772/ has been moved to this separate thread

Original comment that is referred to:

[quote author="vinb" date="1301333819"]try this:
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QFile mio_f(nome);
if (!mio_f.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly))
return; //when file doesnt open.
size = mio_f.size(); //when file does open.

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where 'nome' is a var with the path to file in it || nome is path to file

[/quote]

Regards, Volker

well, I disagree a but with vinb, it's commonly seen as bad practice to have more than one exit point per function. Moreover, leaving the indentation like that is misleading : size doesn't look on same level as if.

For a junior developper, keeping good coding rules is a must as it prevents easy mistake : my advice, use always brackets, even for single-lined blocks, keep one return point / one exit point per function (eases memory management)

[ZapB]

[quote author="florent.revelut" date="1301335667"]well, I disagree a but with vinb, it's commonly seen as bad practice to have more than one exit point per function. Moreover, leaving the indentation like that is misleading : size doesn't look on same level as if.

For a junior developper, keeping good coding rules is a must as it prevents easy mistake : my advice, use always brackets, even for single-lined blocks, keep one return point / one exit point per function (eases memory management)[/quote]

In general yes, but this type of rule can be relaxed to some extent when using RAII classes such as QSharedPointer or QMutexLocker etc. or only using variables on the stack. Using RAII classes often makes for more readable functions as their destructors do the messy cleanup for you.

[andre]

[quote author="florent.revelut" date="1301335667"]well, I disagree a but with vinb, it's commonly seen as bad practice to have more than one exit point per function. Moreover, leaving the indentation like that is misleading : size doesn't look on same level as if.

For a junior developper, keeping good coding rules is a must as it prevents easy mistake : my advice, use always brackets, even for single-lined blocks, keep one return point / one exit point per function (eases memory management)[/quote]

You do realize that this is opposite to Qt's own coding conventions?

I don't agree with the guidelines you give here. A single-line block does not need brackets, and there is no reason to keep a single exit point to a function as long as you don't rely on creating objects on the heap and destroying them again in the same function. Now that is something to avoid when possible, if you ask me.

[goetz]

Adhering to the "single point of exit" dogma leads to unreadable code if you have more than two or three nested if statements and it puts else blocks far away from the corresponding if. I regard this as bad coding style and urge all my fellow programmers I'm responsible for to not use this pattern.

Also, coding style is clearly a matter of taste - it's not helpful to bring in such topics into an obviously technical discussion. Please discuss these things in a new thread. Thanks.