Re: Alignment Nazi?

Ged,

Personally, I would not care what happened on such a rename operation. 
It is unlikely, however, that the temperature class would be renamed 
since it is one of our basic, low-level utility classes. In any event, 
if such a rename were performed I would expect things to get realigned 
when someone had reason to delve into that area of the code, otherwise I 
would not care.

FYI, if I was the person doing the rename, I'd probably realign 
everything because I'm wired that way. However, I'd probably take the 
pragmatic road and abort the rename once I saw how many changes in the 
code base it would produce.

Regards,

Gordon

Ged Byrne wrote:
> Gorden,
> 
> My question is what happens if the Temperature class is renamed to
> something longer?  Do you have to go through all of the classes that
> declare a Temperature instance and move every single = to maintain
> alignment?
> 
> Are you forced to keep names short, so that alignment is easy?  Would
> you prefer correct alignment over descriptive names?
> 
> If names aren't kept short, then you start having to scroll sideways
> in the IDE and word wrap in the printouts.  Is that desirable?
> 
> I've been working with SQL that uses the same type of alignment
> scheme, and these are the problems I've been encountering.
> 
> 
> Ged.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:06 PM, gjmilne64 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am an Alignment Nazi. When I see a block of code like this:
>>
>>         final int         counts              = result.getCounts();
>>         final int         periodMicros        = result.getMicros();
>>         final Rate        rate                = new Rate(new