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  • A Ariel Kazeed

    ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

    Kazz


    "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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    Christian Graus
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    That would totally suck. It would constantly add them where you don't want them. How can it tell where you want braces ? Semicolons would also not be fool proof.

    Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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    • A Ariel Kazeed

      ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

      Kazz


      "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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      Dan Neely
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      If it was possible to do what you wanted correctly there would be no need for the punctuation in the first place. The fact taht it can't be guessed with 100% accuracy is why you have to insert them manually.

      You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon

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      • A Ariel Kazeed

        ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

        Kazz


        "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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        jchigg2000
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        They've got auto parenthesis in Netbeans(Java) and it sucks pretty terribly.

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        • A Ariel Kazeed

          ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

          Kazz


          "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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          Christopher Duncan
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          Standard functionality in a programmer's editor. I'm still hauling CodeWright around, but Visual Slick Edit and others also offer this and more. Writing code in an IDE isn't that far removed from using Notepad. :)

          Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com

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          • A Ariel Kazeed

            ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

            Kazz


            "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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            DaveX86
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            Write your code in Visual Basic, that way you don't have to worry about the unnecessary punctuation :)

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            • A Ariel Kazeed

              ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

              Kazz


              "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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              Brady Kelly
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              ReSharper, and other aids do stuff like that. Wonderful. :rose:

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              • A Ariel Kazeed

                ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                Kazz


                "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                Judah Gabriel Himango
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                The ReSharper add-in has an option for this. I really didn't like it and ended up turning it off. My fingers type the semicolon without using the brain. :-)

                Life, family, faith: Give me a visit. From my latest post: "And you think, 'To keep my anti-Judaic theology alive I must reinterpret this verse too as being a blessing for Christians and not for Jews. I know it strains all manner of principles of interpretation. I don’t read the newspaper this sloppily, but, man, I have a theology to defend.'" Judah Himango

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                  Write your code in Visual Basic, that way you don't have to worry about the unnecessary punctuation :)

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  David Lockwood wrote:

                  Write your code in Visual Basic, that way you don't have to worry about the unnecessary punctuation

                  That's what I was going to say! Marc

                  Thyme In The Country Interacx My Blog

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                    David Lockwood wrote:

                    Write your code in Visual Basic, that way you don't have to worry about the unnecessary punctuation

                    That's what I was going to say! Marc

                    Thyme In The Country Interacx My Blog

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                    DaveX86
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                    Great minds think alike :)

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                    • A Ariel Kazeed

                      ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                      Kazz


                      "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                      peterchen
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                      WholeTomato VisualAssist handles adding braces quite well, even though it CAN be distracting sometimes. As for semicolons, I don't know if I want them.

                      We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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                      • A Ariel Kazeed

                        ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                        Kazz


                        "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                        Jeremy Tierman
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                        I would like to see it autoname my variables...I sure they can figure out what I want the variable for :laugh:

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                        • A Ariel Kazeed

                          ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                          Kazz


                          "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                          Super Lloyd
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                          it's so 3rd millenium, ppff.... I'd like VS to write the code for me from a few fuzzy directives!

                          A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                          • A Ariel Kazeed

                            ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                            Kazz


                            "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                            macu
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                            Another vote for Resharper which does alot of good things, but actually it's braces, spaces and semi colons are a pain in the ass when you first start using it cause you're so used to doing them yourself.

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                              ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                              Kazz


                              "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                              Paul Watson
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                              TextMate and most text-editors I've used do matching parentheses and tags and does it reasonably well. It doesn't do semi-colons though, I doubt it would know when you are finished a line of code accurately enough to be useful.

                              regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

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                              • A Ariel Kazeed

                                ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                                Kazz


                                "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                                topcatalpha
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                                Hi, you're talking about syntax here. so i guess switching to another language like Basic could be a solution. :-) To me a good designer should write code for the you, design everything in designtime and only add minimal code for specific functions. Greetz Kurt

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                                • A Ariel Kazeed

                                  ... would it be for orthodox programmers' mental health if VS automatically added semicolons and bracers where needed while coding in C#? Would it surely destroy the 'essence' of programming? Because it'd make me quite happy :^)

                                  Kazz


                                  "Users are there to click on things, not think. Let the archs do the damn thinking."

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                                  Bob1000
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                                  Be more happy if MS spent time making VS work correctly and not crash so often (or ever!) :)

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                                    That would totally suck. It would constantly add them where you don't want them. How can it tell where you want braces ? Semicolons would also not be fool proof.

                                    Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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                                    Bijesh
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                                    Rational Application Studio auto-inserts closing braces for java. It can get really annoying..

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                                    • J Judah Gabriel Himango

                                      The ReSharper add-in has an option for this. I really didn't like it and ended up turning it off. My fingers type the semicolon without using the brain. :-)

                                      Life, family, faith: Give me a visit. From my latest post: "And you think, 'To keep my anti-Judaic theology alive I must reinterpret this verse too as being a blessing for Christians and not for Jews. I know it strains all manner of principles of interpretation. I don’t read the newspaper this sloppily, but, man, I have a theology to defend.'" Judah Himango

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                                      Mohamed Meligy
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                                      Yeah, once you try Resharper, just semicolons and parentheses become very small part in editor features :). But yeah, it takes time to get used to, and to stop getting used to as well! For me, it was really painful at beginning. I ended up adding duplicate semicolons and having to delete them instead of just writing one! After a while, it became just the nature of things. I learned what to expect and then stopped thinking about it while typing. The funny thing is that when I sat on VS without Resharper later, it was really painful to miss all the functionality there. This is the problem with non standard tools!

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                                        Write your code in Visual Basic, that way you don't have to worry about the unnecessary punctuation :)

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                                        SimonRigby
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                                        Good point apart from the fact that the ; is not unnecesary in the same way that the _ isn't in VB :)

                                        The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.

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                                          I would like to see it autoname my variables...I sure they can figure out what I want the variable for :laugh:

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                                          SimonRigby
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                                          For a small fee a will write that for providing you are happy with var1, var2, var3 etc :laugh:

                                          The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.

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