A
The Author’s
Idiosyncrasies
of Coding Style
Writing in the first person, I freely admit that I write code with a number of
idiosyncrasies, and thus my code looks a little different from that written by other
people. I have written a lot of code in my life, and I believe that a large part of
writing good code that works correctly is simply a matter of forcing oneself to do
things to compensate for one’s known bad habits. I comment here on some of the
peculiarities of the way I write code that have allowed me to write better (in my
opinion) and more correct code in less time. Your mileage may vary because you
may have different bad habits, so you will probably ...

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