Re: Re: Wrapping long if statements

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:22:49 -0500, Philippe Jausions <philippe.jausions@11abacus.com> wrote: > Jesper Veggerby Hansen wrote: > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Been looking a bit on CS and was wondering how you would wrap a very > > long if-statement (line-length) while still maintaining readability. Fx. > > > > if (($a == 0) and ($b == 0) and ($c == 0) and ($d == 0) and ($e == 0)) { > > // do something > > } > > > > I think if you wrap it to something like this it makes it a lot less > > readable since the indention of the conditions are the same as the > > statements to within the if-statement, i.e.: > > > > if (($a == 0) and ($b == 0) and ($c == 0) and > > ($d == 0) and ($e == 0)) { > > // do something > > } > > I like doing: > > if (($a == 0) && ($b == 0) > && ($c == 0 > || $d != 0) > ) { > // do something > } > > That is, putting the operand at "start" of line and indenting for more > complex sub-expression, so grouping is visually easy to spot. > I also put the operand at the beginning, but I go a bit further. When I break up the conditions I put *every* condition on its own line (at least at the same level) to make it even easier to read: if (($a == 0) && ($b == 0) && ($c == 0 || $d != 0)) { // do something } -- Justin Patrin