On 8/13/19 4:47 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 8/13/19, Jose Isaias Cabrera <jic...@outlook.com> wrote: >> I see all of you smart programmers using this >> non-column matching behavior, and I ask myself why? > Because that's the way Dennis Richie did it. :-)
There are many ways to format code, and many programmers have a strong preference to the way THEY want it. In many ways this choice is a bit like religion, sometimes hard to really explain why, but often the believer has some ideas about it, and the choice is often firmly held and hard to change. I personally like the K&R style, as it is compact and dense, so you can see more code. Some people dislike it for much the same reason. While the braces don't align, the closing brace does align with the beginning of the statement it is closing, and there is nothing else in that column between so scanning up to find it isn't that hard (and then to the end of the line to see the opening brace). If the distance is long, I will add a comment after the closing brace describing the start statement to make it easier to match. Yes, this format makes it harder to see mismatched braces, but by compiling often you get a syntax error with miss-matched braces, and letting your editor find matching braces it tends to be fairly quick to locate it. The key is to compile (or have the editor syntax check) often enough that you can't make two opposing errors like this that hide each other. -- Richard Damon _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
