Some questions on the Style Guide at JavaRanch . . .
1.1 I understand the reasoning behind not indenting, but am I really going to hit the space bar 24 times to "tab" over 6 times ? Or will I press and hold the space bar and hope to let up just at the right spot ?
I am pretty much in code all day long and when I first tried this here at the CattleDrive, I was like, "whoa, this is going to drive me nuts !" I program in Oracle Pl*Sql most of the time, some HTML / JavaScript, and this just hit me hard as way inefficient.
2. - Identifiers
Uh, what is an Identifier ? This might qualify as "there really ARE dumb questions", but I'm not relating to what exactly is an "identifier"
3.2 y+= 100 * x;
My question is not what does this mean (although I would like to know), but my question is why use cryptic language ? The style guide makes serveral mentions of "maintenance programming" so that writing easy to read code is a good thing. Seriously, even though I've dabbled in
Java for a couple of years (like only my big toe ever got wet, not even the other toes), I still stare and this and say "I have no idea what this means".