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Knut Bendik Manger Breistein
1,161 PointsCode placement
Talking about Switch statements and their cases: @ 07.40 Pasan says: “We’ll indent these correctly” and he moves the cases into a different placement than the default (he moves it to the start of the line instead of keeping it at the swift-generated “two tabs into the line”-placement) Any reason why?
I may not know too much about this yet, but I have relied upon using auto placement as a sort of a “tell tale” for knowing whether or not I’m doing right or wrong in the code (and this kinda contradicts this).
2 Answers
Charles Kenney
15,604 PointsNegatively indenting switch statements has always been a convention, but many people do not follow it. In Xcode, anytime you open a set of curl braces and press enter, the page is automatically indented. But upon typing out your case clause, everything should shift back one tab. It is often argued that the case statement should act as a label in control flow and not indenting it makes it more readable.
Your indention in a switch-case statement will not effect the functionality of your code, but it is always best practice to follow Apple's implementation.
When in doubt, check the docs and see how Apple is writing it in their code examples. Swift 3.1 Docs: Control Flow
More examples of this convention in practice:
C# Switch Statement Conventions Java Switch Statement Conventions
Hope this helps,
-Charles
Knut Bendik Manger Breistein
1,161 Points@Charles Kenney Thanks for your answer Charles. That clarifies a few things:) Will check out documentation as well!
- Knut B