What are your programming idiosyncrasies?

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Published on 2010-09-11T06:46:17Z Indexed on 2011/03/15 8:21 UTC
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I noticed that I have a peculiar habit of finishing every line with a space. It carries over from my prose writing where a paragraph can have multiple sentences and so it is very common to follow a period with a space, and I end up doing that automatically for every period (or when it comes to programming- semicolon). It started out as something automatic, but I'm so used to this by now that if I miss the space it actually bothers me and I end up returning to that line to input it.

What are some of your programming idiosyncrasies?

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