I didn’t thought about overriding stuff, because I like to use unit names to refer the one I want to use (that’s another example of “being verbose” and that).
By the way, maybe the most annoying thing I see is the indentation. Let me paste a little example of how I indent code:
unit ExampleUnit;
(* An example of how I do indentation in my code. You'll see some original
things here, like how I align the comment blocks and other stuff.
Pay attention to the next line!
*)
interface
uses
sysutils, Classes,
UnitUsed, AnotherOne, Blablablah;
const
(* This explains the next constant. *)
ValueUsedSomewhere = 10;
(* Now, a procedure declaration. *)
procedure RoutineThatDoesSomething (aParameter: Integer);
implementation
uses
StringUtils; { For example. }
procedure RoutineThatDoesSomething (aParameter: Integer);
begin
{ And here, we have some code (random, at the moment). }
if aParameter < 10 then
WriteLne ('The value is small.');
{ I think you get the idea.
By the way, I want to show some extreme cases because maybe you find
them interesting.
}
CallingWithLotOfParameters
(
'A value here',
ValueThere,
123123123,
YabadbaDoo
);
if (VeryLargeName <> AnEvenLargerNameThanTheOther)
and (VeryLargeName <> AnotherThing)
then
begin
Blabla := aParameter;
CallSomething (aParameter + 1)
end
end;
end.
I don’t know how do you see it. I understand that it adds more indentation but I find it more easy to read than most of other’s code I’ve seen out there; specially the long routine call and the long if statement are quite easy to find the ending. Note that I use Vim mostly and it is a bit uncomfortable with long lines; I tend to use up to 80 character lines but I exceed that limit sometimes when I feel it.