make your code base a home base

styling C99 for editability

avoiding syntactic special cases

i like being able to easily delete lines and swap lines without having to think about C's syntax; one useful family of tricks involves avoiding "syntactic special cases" -- basically, the first and last of something should be styled just like the things in the middle i initialize structs with a trailing comma:

{
 a,
 b,
 c,
}

i sometimes write an else-if ladder with a leading if (0) block (recall 0 is false):

if (0) {
} else if (...) {
 ...
} else if (...) {
 ...
} else if (...) {
 ...
}

here's how i write long AND chains (recall 1 is true):

(1
 && ...
 && ...
 && ...
)

and OR chains:

(0
 || ...
 || ...
 || ...
)

here's a snippet of real code from Conversation's source

B32 is_prinicipal_frame = (1
 && R32_is_zero(part_projection->signed_distance_to_feature_plane) 
 && geom3d_vector_has_unit_length(part_projection->normal) 
 && R32_are_equal(1.0F, vec3_max(part_projection->normal))
);
if (0
 || !part_projection->is_active
 || !is_prinicipal_frame
) {
 ...
}

and here's another :)

Void gui2_separator(
 Axis split_axis,
 String prev_sibling_string,
 String next_sibling_string
) {
 GUIBox *separator = gui_tracked_box(
  "%S_separator_%S",
  prev_sibling_string,
  next_sibling_string
 );
 separator->flags = (0
  | GUIBoxFlagRenderFill
  | GUIBoxFlagLeftClickable
  | GUIBoxFlagIsASeparator
 );
 ...
}

it's a shame HolyC didn't catch on, because i think it allowed you to include a trailing comma in function calls and that would have been siiick