Your coding style[edit]

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Aug 4 2003, 7:29 am
I tend to use a double-CR between procs and types, single CR's where appropriate within procs, and usually name my variables using the Java-style StudlyCaps technique (occasionally I'll use single capital letters for vars if it's a short proc where the meaning is obvious -- e.g., T for text, M for a mob, etc.). So it ends up looking like this:

mob/player
var/evil = 0


proc/DoSomething(mob/player/otherPlayer)
if(otherPlayer.evil > evil)
world << "Yikes!"
else
world << "I am the EVIL MASTER!"

var/averageEvil = (otherPlayer.evil + evil) / 2
evil = averageEvil
otherPlayer.evil = averageEvil


verb/say(T as text)
world << "[src]: [T]"
Aug 4 2003, 7:35 am
In response to Deadron
Deadron wrote:
Kunark wrote:
  • I NEVER EVER use comments in my games;
    In the words of the host of Hollywood Squares when someone makes a dumb move: Maybe that'll work out for you...

    There is one case where this can make sense, though -- namely, if the code is comprised of many brief procedures with useful, descriptive names. In other words, the author can take the position that "if a block of code needs a comment, it should be in a separate proc." If that's the case, then the code is essentially self-commenting (though there will still be cases where it's appropriate to add clarifications).
Aug 4 2003, 7:46 am
I don't use brackets. I tend to go leave a blank line whenever I go back a level or more of indentation. Outside of the declaration of variables within procs, I tend to indent rather than use slashes.

The thing that probably stands out the most with my code is that I don't use underscores or mid-word capitalizations. If I have a world-builder proc, it'll get named Worldbuilder(), not World_builder or WorldBuilder.

I can't think of much else. I guess the most distinctive part of my coding isn't in how I code, but in the layout of screen elements and the user interface.

Z
Aug 4 2003, 8:54 am
In response to Gughunter
Gughunter wrote:
Deadron wrote:
Kunark wrote:
  • I NEVER EVER use comments in my games;
    In the words of the host of Hollywood Squares when someone makes a dumb move: Maybe that'll work out for you...

    There is one case where this can make sense, though -- namely, if the code is comprised of many brief procedures with useful, descriptive names. In other words, the author can take the position that "if a block of code needs a comment, it should be in a separate proc." If that's the case, then the code is essentially self-commenting (though there will still be cases where it's appropriate to add clarifications).

    This is true but rarely does a game of any complexity not have a larger system that should be explained, as well as the various cases.

    The main point is the idea that "Only I'm going to look at my code so I don't need comments" is a pretty big joke on yourself. When you come back to the code 6 months, a year, 5 years later (which has happened to me), you ARE the other person!
Aug 4 2003, 12:22 pm
Well, my style is how it goes.

<l>
  • Seperate .dm files for almost every different thing to be done.

    Here are Evolution of Eternitys current files;

    Administration.dm
    Battle System.dm
    Beta Testers.dm
    Equipment.dm
    Mobs.dm
    mygame.dm -- I never knew the name for this project until later on.
    NPCs.dm
    Objects.dm
    Sounds.dm
    SpuzzumAddons.dm -- This is when he was mapping the game, he needed additional scripts.
    Turfs.dm
    Verbs.dm
    World.dm
  • I organise things into their own folders.

    IE;

    .DMI files go into a "DMI" folder.
    Images such as PNGs, BMPs and so on go into the "Images" folder.
    Sounds and musical files go into the "Sounds" folder.
    Text documents like notes and stuff go into a "Text" folder.

    As for .dm files, they stay where they are with the .rsc file and the .dmb file.
  • I often use comments, only on certain things I think I may forget in the future.
    </l>
    That is more or less what type of style I use... I listen to music while programming though, but, I need motivation to start programming, otherwise I cannot program anything.

    --Lee
Aug 4 2003, 2:13 pm
In response to Lazyboy
Your in college yet you cant even spell it?
Aug 4 2003, 2:18 pm
In response to Foomer
If his eyes were as bad as mine hed understand white space.
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