[PHP-DOC] Re: Curly braces

[Mehdi Achour]

Hi Neil,

The PHP doc team choosed to use PEAR coding standards in its examples :

  http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.control.php

But you are free to use the way you want.

Mehdi Achour

The following code appears in the PHP Manual to illustrate a "statement 
group""

<?php
if ($a > $b) {
    echo "a is bigger than b";
    $b = $a;
}
?>
Frankly, I get confused when curly braces fly all over the place.  If I 
have a series of nested control
structures and statement groups, it becomes very easy to mismatch the 
braces and create debugging
headaches.

I prefer to have my opening and closing braces in the same column.  For 
example:

<?php
if ($a > $b)
{
    echo "a is bigger than b";
    $b = $a;
}
?>
That makes them much easier to match up.

Is this syntax permissible?  If so, the documentation ought to say so 
explicitly.

Thank you.