Since PhpStorm 2017.x version the appropriate option is located at: Settings (Preferences on Mac) | Editor | Code Style PHP | Wrapping and Braces Array initializer | Align key-value pairs ORIGINAL ANSWER (for v2016 and older) Settings (Preferences on Mac) | Editor | Code Style | PHP Other | Array declaration style -> Align key-value … Read more
It’s not the block itself that’s expensive, and it’s not even catching an exception, per se, that’s expensive, it’s the runtime unwinding the call stack until it finds a stack frame that can handle the exception. Throwing an exception is pretty light weight, but if the runtime has to walk up six stack frames (i.e. … Read more
One option is to use wayback machine, which seems to contain the document (here’s direct link to pdf version). However I would also be interested to find out what Oracle did with it and do they intend to get rid of it. There’s a discussion on Oracle forums about this being raised to OTN support, … Read more
The ternary operator is generally to be avoided, but this form can be quite readable: result = (foo == bar) ? result1 : (foo == baz) ? result2 : (foo == qux) ? result3 : (foo == quux) ? result4 : fail_result; This way, the condition and the result are kept together on the same … Read more
I use anonymous functions for three reasons: If no name is needed because the function is only ever called in one place, then why add a name to whatever namespace you’re in. Anonymous functions are declared inline and inline functions have advantages in that they can access variables in the parent scopes. Yes, you can … Read more
It’s certainly valid to use single quotes (HTML 4.01, section 3.2.2). I haven’t noticed such a trend, but perhaps there’s some framework that powers web sites you’ve visited that happens to quote using single quotes.
Just include <stdbool.h> if your system provides it. That defines a number of macros, including bool, false, and true (defined to _Bool, 0, and 1 respectively). See section 7.16 of C99 for more details.
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but (like Doug Crockford’s vids) I think everybody who writes/edits/reviews JS should look at Chris Heilmann’s slides and videos on maintainable javascript. In the slides, slide 127, he says don’t worry so much about style guides/code standards, reformat all code checked in to VCS. Also these: Mozilla JavaScript Tips … Read more
See: RFC 3092: Etymology of “Foo”, D. Eastlake 3rd et al. Quoting only the relevant definitions from that RFC for brevity: Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples (bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, … Read more
Much of the value of PEP-8 is to stop people arguing about inconsequential formatting rules, and get on with writing good, consistently formatted code. Sure, no one really thinks that 79 is optimal, but there’s no obvious gain in changing it to 99 or 119 or whatever your preferred line length is. I think the … Read more