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Posted by Curtis on 01/02/06 23:20
Lόpher Cypher <lupher.cypher@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:te6uf.1513$494.916@trndny07...
> Btw, I prefer to rather escape quotes (\"). I believe ""
is a standard
> for xhtml, and there was some slight difference between ''
and "" in
> php. However, for strings in php, you can't go wrong with
"" :)
I suppose not. In theory, I lean toward what another poster
suggested--if you're not embedding variables, using
'text="foo"' is cleaner than "text=\"foo\"". But in
practice, one embeds variables so often--and uses regular
expressions that make PHP's syntax a cakewalk by
comparison--that I'm almost always escaping full quotes, as
you suggest.
> > While I'm on the subject, I note that a lot of PHP
coders do
> > the opening braces like so:
> >
> > <?php
> > if ($something) {
> > do this();
> > } else
> >
> > dothat();
> > }
> > ?>
> >
> >
> > I don't find this as readable/maintainable as lining up
> > opening and closing braces the same way I would line up
> >
> > begin
> > begin
> > end
> > end
> >
> > in Pascal--especially when things get nested three or
four
> > levels deep.
> >
>
> I started programming in Pascal, and when I started
learning C++, and
> later C-like-syntax languages, I was finding pascal-style
blocks better.
> But I think that for C-like-syntax languages opening
blocks with a brace
> on the same line is so common that one can say it's a
"standard" :)
> Anyways, you'd get used to it over time :)
I hope not. Heh.
A person can get used to about anything, but it just makes
too much sense to me to use the visual symmetry of
{
{
{
}
}
}
I can't think of a good reason NOT to, with the exception of
some additional vertical white space. And that's not so bad,
as I like to comment from the 50th column to the 80th, and
that white space is often good for comment continuation.
Like so:
1 50
____________________________________
if (!$skip) # If comment
{ # really vital
codestuff(); # do it here.
}
I find that MUCH easier to read than:
// Do the foo to the fee because bar.
if (!$skip)
codestuff();
}
// More comments blah blah blabbity-blab.
if ($skyisfalling) {
morecodestuff();
}
My style was almost a requisite back in the days of assembly
language programming, and with good variable name selection
code is more self-documenting these days, but I find the
style still has a lot to be said for it, particularly if the
coder comments about the nonobvious aspects of the
algorithm.
--
Curtis
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