On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:12:11 +0100, Chris Douce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> About a year ago I was embroiled in an increasingly heated debate about
> bracketing, namely where to place a bracket after a keyword. In one case, a
> bracket was placed immediately after a keyword, i.e:
>
> if(foo == bar)
>
> in another case, the line would be:
>
> if (foo == bar)
>
> Where a space would be present after the keyword. It occurred to me that
> there could potentially be a recognition penalty for the keyword in the
> first case.
>
> My question is, does anybody know of any psychology of programming or
> related research that can help to solve this dilemma? I can't think of
> anything off the top of my head.
The key is to always put the parenthesis before the keyword and the space
after:
(if (eq foo bar) ... )
:-j
... or don't forget to review your assumptions about syntax in the first
place.
FTR I'd write the original infix as:
if ( foo == bar )
ie with two more spaces.
__Jason
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