Readability

C/AL Coding Guidelines

Readability

Generally, all readability rules are Microsoft style choices only. You can use them to keep consistency with the existing code.

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Begin as an 'After Word'

Begin-End - Compound Only

Binary Operator to Start Line

Blank Lines

CASE Action

Colon usage in CASE

Comments inside Curly Brackets

Comment Spacing

END ELSE Pair

Indentation

Keyword Pairs - Indentation

Line Start Keywords

Lonely Repeat

Named Invocations

Nested WITHs

One Statement Per Line

Separate IF and ELSE

Spacing Binary Operators

Spacing Brackets and ::

Spacing Unary Operators

Suggested Abbreviations

Temporary Variable Naming

TextConst Suffixes

Unary Operator Line End

Unnecessary Compound Parenthesis

Unnecessary ELSE

Unnecessary Function Parenthesis

Unnecessary Separators

Unnecessary TRUE/FALSE

Variable Already Scoped

Variable Naming

Variables Declarations Order

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