Style question : sort members ?

[Ian Young]

On 11 Feb 2014, at 20:04, Tom Zeller <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

> I like to sort source code in Eclipse via :
> 
> Source -> Sort Members... -> Sort All Members

Takes all kinds, I suppose. I'm probably with Scott on this one: the order I want to see things appear in as I scroll through the file depends on their purposes and relationships, not the alphabet. When looking at the whole file, in other words, the ordering represents some kind of narrative.

> Should that be a coding convention ? Opinions ?

I do not think that we should adopt this as a coding convention.

If you feel that alphabetical ordering helps you to navigate large files (and I sometimes find it helps me, particularly with code I'm not familiar with), you might try using the Outline pane in Eclipse and poking the "Sort" button there. This gives *exactly* the "Alphabetical, grouped by fields, constructors, methods" view you prefer, without imposing it within the file.

	-- Ian

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