Programmer's Guide To Text Blocks

[Tagir Valeev]

Hello!

In general, looks good, thanks!

> *Guideline:* *Avoid aligning the opening and closing delimiters and the
text block's left margin. This requires reindentation of the text block if
the variable name or modifiers are changed.*

I'm not sure about this recommendation. Reindentation could be necessary in
other cases as well, e.g. if you move this declaration to the nested block.
I think every IDE will take care of any necessary reindentation for you.
It's similar to a method declaration that contains several parameters one
per line. E.g. (from OpenJDK Collectors class):

public static Collector<CharSequence, ?, String> joining(CharSequence
delimiter,
                                                             CharSequence
prefix,
                                                             CharSequence
suffix)

Here three parameters are indented in the same way: if method name,
modifiers, return type or type parameters ever change, this would require
the reindentation of second and third lines (and IDEs do this
automatically). Is such a code style acceptable for Java? If yes, then
indenting opening and closing delimiters of the text block should also be
acceptable, in my opinion.

With best regards,
Tagir Valeev.

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:38 PM Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:

> The enclosed PDF is the content of the proposed "Programmer's Guide To
> Text Blocks".  Document source is located at
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/Strings/TextBlocksGuide_v8.md
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/Strings/TextBlocksGuide_v8.html
>
> Please review and comment back to this mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Jim
>
>
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