On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 10:13:56PM +0100, Raphael Langella wrote:
> 2010/12/5 William Tanksley, Jr <wtanksle...@gmail.com>
>
> > Jude <bookofj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I don't like this. Surrounding it with parentheses makes it stand out
> > > better, regardless of whether or not it's short, long, or multi-line.
>
> I agree that it looks like a function call, thus my proposal. Here is
> another one:
>
> put the return expression in parenthesis only if it contains an operator. If
> it is just a single word, value or function call, parenthesis aren't needed.
> Examples:
>
> return 0;
> return variable_name;
> return true;
> return function_call(parm);
>
> return (a + b);
> return (foo == ENUM_FOO || bar == ENUM_bar);
Or perhaps "if it's complex". So a + b wouldn't hit that but a longer
expression would.
I also looked into automated formatters. Among them, the "ansi" mode of
"astyle" matches ours pretty well, except for continuation lines. It starts
all subsequent lines in the same column which doesn't look good.
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