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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: Inserting Multiple Lines from Console
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:11:17 -0700
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:43:39 -0400, Eric Sosman
<esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:

[snip]

>See the matrices?  They're still there, if you sort of tilt your
>head to the side and squint a little; it may help if you're slightly
>astigmatic.  See the right-hand sides in their systematic little
>dance?  Not I, not with all the head-tilting my vertebrae can manage.
>Somebody's insistence on his own notions of formatting (as embodied
>in the mechanical formatter) transformed my code from crystal-clear
>to opaque and ugly.

     Of course, it can go the other way around, too.  Sometimes,
formatters do help clean up code.  One reason that I have avoided
using code formatters though is because sometimes, aesthetics is
important.  Your code is an example of this.  Another would be a
function/method call with some parameters that are important.  How
would you split (typed all on one line):


retval=functionname(importantparm1,importantparm2,option1,option2,option3,option4,option5);

I would probably use
   retval=functionname(importantparm1,importantparm2,
    option1,option2,option3,option4,option5);
or
   retval=functionname(

importantparm1,importantparm2,option1,option2,option3,option4,option5);
It is extremely unlikely that I would use
   retval=functionname(importantparm1,importantparm2,option1,option2,
    option3,option4,option5);
but how do I specify what the aesthetics are?

>     Perhaps I should just be thankful it left the line breaks
>in place.  It doesn't always, you know!  About a month ago I used
>this well-known pattern:
>
>          Quotation quo = new Quotation.Builder()
>                  .setDate(elt.getAttribute(DATE))
>                  .setPrice(elt.getAttribute(PRICE))
>                  .setSize(elt.getAttribute(SIZE))
>                  .setSource(elt.getAttribute(SOURCE))
>                  .build();
>
>... which the friendly formatter turned into:
>
>          Quotation quo = new 
>Quotation.Builder().setDate(elt.getAttribute(DATE)).setPrice(elt.getAttribute(PRICE)).setSize(elt.getAttribute(SIZE)).setSource(elt.getAttribute(SOURCE)).build();
>
>... after which the check-in system dinged me for line length.

     Are you coming?  We got you.
     Are you going?  We got you.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko