-- P?draic Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Thursday, 28 September 2006, 01:24 AM -0700):
> Parts of the standards seem to follow opposing preferences. While
> functions and methods place the opening brace on its own line, control
> statements state they should place on the same line as the statement
> def.
>
> Seems a bit odd. I usually do the opposite :), but esp. not placing
> control statement braces on a new line reduces readability IMO. A
> method def is easy to spot - following control statements is far more
> complicated.
Odd as it may seem, it's a fairly well-known standard often referred to
as the 'One True Brace':
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/One_true_brace
The style is also used in PEAR and Linux kernel development.
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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