Please, let us not start the great brace and indentation holy war here.
I'm a firm believer that Whitesmiths is the best style to use. Allman a
close second. K&R is awful.
None of that matters.
On a shared project, a standard is better than being right.
Also, if you want to reformat code, take a look at astyle, (sorry don't have
a URL handy) a syntax directed indent engine that converts between the
various styles.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Fernández [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] The Commons
Hi all!
"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote:
> I support the notion of standardization, but some of the Sun conventions
> are just awful, particularly the bit about ending the method declaration
> with a '{'
Right, code becomes "asymmetrical", and hard to read.
> Futher, I like starting blocks with a { a la
>
> if( foo )
> {
> <block>
> }
That looks a lot nicer. Even if the resulting code has more lines, it
can be scanned 17465% faster (though YMMV).
> I know it makes code 'big', but I personally find it easy to read, and
> then if someone adds something, you don't get stuck with the bug
>
> if(foo)
> bar;
>
> going to
>
> if(foo)
> woogie;
> bar;
>
> if they forget to add the braces, which can be a bear to find,
> especially when groggy and tired :)
Sure, and what about
if (foo);
bar;
Compare with
if (foo);
{
bar;
}
which is much easier to spot.
Un saludo,
Alex.
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