Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> Hm, I've used this before, always have.
>> IMHO it looks much better this way, and is easier to edit around...
>> I do take care to have the 'else' in the line just above 'if'.
>
> It's unfortunate if this style has found its way into other places in our
> codebase.
>
>> But whatever, if Greg is surprised by it, not many people will be using my
>> way. Will fix, but now it's high time for bed.
>
> I don't think it's a question of anybody being surprised, or one style is
> better than another or Greg being the bees-knees or anything like that. Long
> ago we picked a coding standard, and it just happened to be the "else if
> (..." style. I'm sure I don't have to enumerate the benefits to being
> consistent in our style, but suffice it to say it's the way The World is.
>
> (FWIW, I personally prefer "if (...) {", but we don't do that, either. Old
> habits die hard.)
>
> -HyrumI said *whatever* already :) we have boundaries in which style is allowed. wasn't aware that this is such a catastrophe... will fix and heed. whatever. This is definitely less confusing and less important than some of our API docco. :P ~Neels
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