Alexander Solla schrieb:
I used a modified version of the "best practices" described by the Perl people for Perl code. "Like things go under like things" is the most important rule to follow. This rule, in other words, is a convention to make your code as "tabular" as possible. Also, most expressions have an "outermost" connective. I tend to align them:
Consider:
data Foo a b = Foo a | Bar b | Foobar a b
That's not so nice looking now, but consider what happens when you have four or five arguments:
This indentation relies on Foo remaining Foo in the future. If you alter Foo then you have to move the block of constructors as well. This gives line changes in a versioning system where nothing actually has changed. The style data Foo a b = Foo a | Bar b | Foobar a b avoids this, at least for the type name "Foo".