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Line break before or after binary operator? [closed]
While Sun's Java code convention suggests to put line break before the operator, many other guidelines disagree with it. I do not see any obvious pros and cons. Are there advantages of using one of ...
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How to introduce new language features in a legacy source code?
I have a coding style related question. In my example it is java, but I think this can be a generic question regarding languages that are changing rapidly.
I'm working on a java code base which was ...
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Is it a good practice to create new variable to see the output of a function?
Consider these 2 types of implementation:
public int add(int x, int y) {
return mysteriousAdd(x, y);
}
public int add(int x, int y) {
int output = mysteriousAdd(x, y);
return output;
}
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