Chapter 7. Formatting
No other topic generates more heat and less light than code formatting. Everybody has their own style and attempts to impose another style are met with ferocious resistance. So, why am I willingly sticking my head into this buzz saw?
The first reason is “because it is there.” I want to push patterns to their limit, to see how well they apply to a detail-oriented, exception-ridden, and emotion-filled topic. I wrote these patterns over the course of a couple of months. As new special cases came up, I either had to modify the patterns, add a new pattern, or format my code according to the existing patterns. Before long, I no longer was finding cases where I had to change the patterns. I am quite pleased that all of formatting ...
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