How bad...
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LOL Gravity doesn't bother me so much, so long as I have a comfy chair. :) I agree the semicolon on enter thing would not work out, I was thinking more along the lines of "press enter after each statement" or, when you think about it, a "newline after semicolon" would probably be about as good. Personally, I don't even care about hitting enter after a semicolon, the problem I have is that semicolons are required in the first place, but I don't want to start a flamewar about it. I just think there are better ways to end a statement. Like using a special character/keystroke in the odd circumstance to continue a line (like shift-Enter), rather than using a certain character always to end a statement. But then that's not what the OP was asking about, so no point starting up on that.
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I code in Ruby, I am happy without semicolons. Though I do plenty of JavaScript too which is annoyingly silent on forgotten semicolons. Most of the time it doesn't matter but the odd time it does is the hardest bug to track down.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Write your code in Visual Basic, that way you don't have to worry about the unnecessary punctuation :)
David Lockwood wrote:
Write your code in Visual Basic, that way you don't have to worry about the unnecessary punctuation [Smile]
I had to switch to VB.NET after C# on my latest job. Please, somebody, kill me !!! , I have no strenght to do it myself :rolleyes:
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Of course, better coders don't write long lines of code that need to be wrapped :-D (Though if you are in the .NET world then I don't see how you can write three lines before having to wrap. All those namespaces and class structures.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
(Though if you are in the .NET world then I don't see how you can write three lines before having to wrap. All those namespaces and class structures.)
160 column screens FTW!
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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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LOL Gravity doesn't bother me so much, so long as I have a comfy chair. :) I agree the semicolon on enter thing would not work out, I was thinking more along the lines of "press enter after each statement" or, when you think about it, a "newline after semicolon" would probably be about as good. Personally, I don't even care about hitting enter after a semicolon, the problem I have is that semicolons are required in the first place, but I don't want to start a flamewar about it. I just think there are better ways to end a statement. Like using a special character/keystroke in the odd circumstance to continue a line (like shift-Enter), rather than using a certain character always to end a statement. But then that's not what the OP was asking about, so no point starting up on that.
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logan1337 wrote:
a "newline after semicolon" would probably be about as good
I wouldn't like that to happen in anonymous/inline functions. For example I like to put (short) code in one line when using delegates in C#, if there are about 3 statements I prefer them in the same line.
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I'm sick of semicolons too;
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logan1337 wrote:
I'm sick of semicolons too;
You've got a syntax error there - unclosed string literal. :D
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except that they server exactly opposite functions... The ; ends a command wheras the _ extends one
Yes I'm fully aware of that. My point was in reponse to the word unnecesary. The ; is not not unneccesary.
The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.
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logan1337 wrote:
a "newline after semicolon" would probably be about as good
I wouldn't like that to happen in anonymous/inline functions. For example I like to put (short) code in one line when using delegates in C#, if there are about 3 statements I prefer them in the same line.
Yeah good point. I didn't think it was a very good idea.
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logan1337 wrote:
I'm sick of semicolons too;
You've got a syntax error there - unclosed string literal. :D
:laugh: Debug.Assert( this.IsSickOf( "semicolons" ) == true );
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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."
Resharper 4.0 (from Jetbrains.com) is offering to add the ending parenthesis and braces for you on functions and many other C# constructs. But, I do think that it could get annoying at times, unless you always encode even single lines of code in braces (after ifs, fors, whiles, etc.).
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Yes I'm fully aware of that. My point was in reponse to the word unnecesary. The ; is not not unneccesary.
The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.
I think he was speaking in a more general sense. In that, if VB (or any language, in this case, any .NET language) can accept code without semicolons, than they are "unnecessary" from a more philosophical perspective. In that, you can indeed write your .NET application without using them.
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I think he was speaking in a more general sense. In that, if VB (or any language, in this case, any .NET language) can accept code without semicolons, than they are "unnecessary" from a more philosophical perspective. In that, you can indeed write your .NET application without using them.
Errr .. right .. so in C# I can format my code any way I like and use the semicolon to actually mark the end of a 'line'. In VB I need to use the _ to acheive the same result. So taking to goal is to produce clear and concise, well layed out code, both languages have this facility just that one is implicit and one is explicit. I'm struggling to see the point, surely both are not unnecessary thats my point.
The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.
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Errr .. right .. so in C# I can format my code any way I like and use the semicolon to actually mark the end of a 'line'. In VB I need to use the _ to acheive the same result. So taking to goal is to produce clear and concise, well layed out code, both languages have this facility just that one is implicit and one is explicit. I'm struggling to see the point, surely both are not unnecessary thats my point.
The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.
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But you can write VB just fine without ever using the _. You can't write C# without using the ;. I prefer C style myself. I never liked having to use the _ symbol. I'm just trying to find a way to justify what the other poster was trying to say. lol
LOL You write VB programs that have those stupidly long lines with no formatting and I'm not employing you .. lol. Its cool mate I see you're point and I know what you're saying but I still say they are both neccesary :)
The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.
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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."
I'd prefer it instead automatically removed illegal semicolumns :-D - I always add one after a block and ... oops: it's underlined in C# (when... I am not even sure when)