Lars Fosdal

True. But I would love a formatter flexible enough to allow it to transmogrify code according to my liking. Currently, there are none, hence I have to do without.

That is indeed true.

Thanks. I just don't find it very readable - just old and established.

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I can do that. I forgot to mention that I also prefer a blank line before and after the conditional blocks, more or less the way it looks in the above example. Edit: @dummzeuch I can't enter a feature request 😢 SourceForge will not let me in if I don't accept their cookie policies - which is unacceptable. Edit 2: Hmm... maybe there is a way around. Edit 3: Done. https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/feature-requests/200/

I described it years back in this post. Writing Readable Code - Formatting and Comments. (it seems that the import to Wordpress didn't do the code blocks the best way... I'll see if I can fix that when I get the time. Basically, it is making things as readable as possible, and avoiding bunching code up tight together. Readbility should come first. For instance, I like a line break immediately after conditions, and identation for single statements. Examples: // if then / if then else single statements if Condition then Action; if Condition then Action else Alternative; if Condition // sometimes I use these variation - yeah I know, not 100% consistant. then Action else begin Alternative; end; if Condition then begin Action; end else Alternative; if Condition then begin Action; end else begin Alternative; end; // for / while for var x in Collection do Something(x); for var x in Collection do begin Something(x); end; while Condition do Action; while Condition do begin Action; end; The purpose is to really hi-lite the if/then/else on separate lines, using indentation for breaking the visual pattern when only using simple statements and not blocks. For conditions, I also tend to group/break those to try to improve readability, but here it is very difficult to be consistant. I'd recommend trying to write them like you write other statements - optimizing for clarity, rather than condensing code as much as possibe.

I spent nearly a decade undoing my built-in left-pinky-shift uppercase reserved word habit, imbued during the pre-syntax-coloring years 🤣 However, I won't give up my if/then/else formatting, and I haven't found a formatter able to replicate it. So, I guess I don't miss that formatter.

I thought everyone had dropped Kaspersky by now.

What you really need, really depends on each person. You obviously can't satisfy everone every time.

Let me moderate myself - I would have loved WebStencils 5-10-15 years ago, but now I work for a company that do advanced scalable web development, using the industry standards - which is not RADServer or WebStencils. WebStencils could be nice if you need a web UI for a Windows Service or similar, though.

I like the WebStencils, but I have no use for it...

The C++ guys are prolly excited. I like the new operators, the new generic constraints, PushOpt/PopOpt, NameOf, Basic version support in GetIt. There is a LOT of RTL stuff as well - but that is defintively YMMV. I still wish they would have added a generic constraint for enumerated types to enable the use of Include/Exclude/In etc.

Some useful stuff, but YMMV. https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Florence/en/What's_New

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