Indentation Style

pmoncho

Just wondering what many of the scripters and developers here like to use as their Indentation Style?

I was looking at my pretty messed up .PS1 scripts and trying to figure out which of the styles from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style
would make my scripts look more organized.

I find I am partial to Allman style. It seems that code blocks are more noticeable and finding a missing bracket seems easier.

Dashrender

@pmoncho said in Indentation Style:

Just wondering what many of the scripters and developers here like to use as their Indentation Style?

I was looking at my pretty messed up .PS1 scripts and trying to figure out which of the styles from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style
would make my scripts look more organized.

I find I am partial to Allman style. It seems that code blocks are more noticeable and finding a missing bracket seems easier.

wow - that's a lot of options.

I think I like whitesmith personally.

pmoncho

@dashrender said in Indentation Style:

@pmoncho said in Indentation Style:

Just wondering what many of the scripters and developers here like to use as their Indentation Style?

I was looking at my pretty messed up .PS1 scripts and trying to figure out which of the styles from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style
would make my scripts look more organized.

I find I am partial to Allman style. It seems that code blocks are more noticeable and finding a missing bracket seems easier.

wow - that's a lot of options.

I think I like whitesmith personally.

I didn't know till I looked also.

Whitesmith is nice too. Hmmm... decisions...decisions...

I am partial to using Tab's instead of space bar four times. Apparently this is a full-on debate about using Tab's that I did not know about either.

JaredBusch

@pmoncho tab indentation needs to die in nuclear fire.

Thankfully, modern IDE systems like Visual Studio Code and others all auto swap a tab for 4 spaces by default.

Personally, I prefer a 2 space indentation, but 4 seems to be the most common.

dafyre

I'm more of a fan of K&R .

I definitely agree with @JaredBusch two spaces for the win.

EddieJennings

@jaredbusch said in Indentation Style:

@pmoncho tab indentation needs to die in nuclear fire.

Thankfully, modern IDE systems like Visual Studio Code and others all auto swap a tab for 4 spaces by default.

Personally, I prefer a 2 space indentation, but 4 seems to be the most common.

I agree on the demise of tabs. Training on Ansible over the last year has solidified my dislike of tabs.

gjacobse

Good to know. Have to take that into consideration should I get into scripting more.

pmoncho

@jaredbusch said in Indentation Style:

@pmoncho tab indentation needs to die in nuclear fire.

Thankfully, modern IDE systems like Visual Studio Code and others all auto swap a tab for 4 spaces by default.

Personally, I prefer a 2 space indentation, but 4 seems to be the most common.

I didn't think Tab's were that big of a deal as I never had an issue between Vi, Nano, Notepad or Notepad++. I guess it is mostly a habit from using text editors.

Hmm... I always hated having press the space bar more than twice (only after "." mostly). Maybe I will try using two spaces in the next script to see how that pans out.