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  allow line break at operators Yingjie Lan <lanyjie@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-09 21:42 -0700
    Re: allow line break at operators TheSaint <no@nowhere.net.no> - 2011-08-10 19:26 +0800

#11092 — allow line break at operators

Hi all,

When writing a long expresion, one usually would like to break it into multiple lines. Currently, you may use a '\' to do so, but it looks a little awkward (more like machine-oriented thing). Therefore I start wondering why not allow line breaking at an operator, which is the standard way of breaking a long expression in publication? Here is an example:

#the old way

x = 1+2+3+4+\
      1+2+3+4

#the new way
x = 1+2+3+4+ #line continues as it is clearly unfinished

      1+2+3+4

Of course, the dot operator is also included, which may facilitate method chaining:

x = svg.append( 'circle' ).
      r(2).cx(1).xy(1).
      foreground('black').bkground('white')

Thoughts?

Yingjie

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Yingjie Lan wrote:

> #the new way
> x = 1+2+3+4+ #line continues as it is clearly unfinished
> 
> 1+2+3+4
> 
Genrally I prefer this way.
> Of course, the dot operator is also included, which may facilitate method
> chaining:
> 
> x = svg.append( 'circle' ).

Dot-ended is to tiny thing that might cause oversights. *If* it'll be used 
as a secondary option I think it doesn't matter, otherwise *if* use as a 
compulsory writing mode I'd say it is pretty mistake prone.

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