c# worth learning?

Oh, PT:

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                            }

                    }

              }

          }

    }

}

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Linus Torvalds would kill you for that. His coding guidelines explicitly state that every function with more than three indents is crap. Create helper functions, which will make your code more readable without having to type 'End If'. Linus also says that the indentation should be 8 chars, then it's even easier to read.

The bottom line: the advantage of End If stems from bad coding style ;)

CornedBee, what is the coding standard in C# when it comes down to naming your variables?

In VB, for example, with hungarian notation, a string would be declared using:

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    Dim strMessage As String

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I haven't noticed any pattern in C#.

Thanks

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Linus Torvalds would kill you for that. His coding guidelines explicitly state that every function with more than three indents is crap. Create helper functions, which will make your code more readable without having to type 'End If'. Linus also says that the indentation should be 8 chars, then it's even easier to read.

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Although I agree with the information, Linus Torvalds isn't the God of programming. That is his style, not everyones. Just cause he does it, doesn't mean I have to. He is a good programmer, don't get me wrong. I can learn a lot from what he has to say, but we are getting into the 'style' part of programming. What makes us comfortable is what we should do....unless working with a team, then you all come up with standards together.

To Lethal, this is all I could find on the MSDN site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...techniques.asp

Of course you are right hellswraith. We can all choose our own style (I use a very strange mix of Hungarian and K&R) unless we work on a team.

But that was exactly the situation Linus wanted to point out. Having 6 or 7 levels of nesting makes your code hard to read, no matter if you use } or End XX to delimit it.

Lethal: You can still use Hungarian in C# if you like it. Naming conventions are independent of the language.
Looking at the .NET framework it seems as if it's convention would be this:

All identifiers start with an upper case letter.
Don't use _ in the identifiers.
The type is not encoded into the identifier.
A multi-word identifier has an upper case letter for each word start (like 'DoSomeWeirdThing').
No prefixes are used for static members or normal members.
Classes don't have a prefix.


I think code is most readable if it adheres to the convention of the framework it uses. But there are arguments both for and against this. It's really up to your personal preference. Think of it this way: code that you'll still be able to read in a year is good. Everything else is bad.

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Think of it this way: code that you'll still be able to read in a year is good. Everything else is bad.

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That's exactly how I feel. You need to write it so you can come back and read it again.