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Formatting

The suggestions on this site are optimized for reading, not for writing. As the ABAP Formatter doesn’t cover them, some of them produce additional manual work to reformat statements when name lengths etc. change; if you want to avoid this, consider dropping rules like Align assignments to the same object, but not to different ones.

Be consistent
Optimize for reading
Use ABAP Formatter before activating
Use your team's ABAP Formatter settings
One statement per line
Reasonable line length
Condense your code
Separate with single blank line
Don't obsess with blank lines
Align assignments to same object
Close brackets at line end
Keep single parameter calls on one line
Keep parameters behind the call
If you break, indent parameters under the call
Line-break multiple parameters
Align parameters
Break calls if too long
Indent and snap to tab
Indent in-line declarations like method calls
Don't align type clauses
Don't chain assignments
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