Re: Alignment Nazi?

Gordon,

I'm sorry, I can't let this one just slide by.  If I were an Alignment Nazi, I would not let the difficulty of realignment get in the way of a needed rename refactoring.  I would find a tool to do the desired realignment.  For example, someone mentioned in this thread that EMACS can do it, IIRC....


Al


----- Original Message ----
> From: Gordon J Milne <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:04:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [pragprog] 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 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