Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:02:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tl001@online.no (Tore Lund) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silly C style question Message-ID: <200101230102.SAA06571@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3A6C72DC.7F5F817@online.no> from "Tore Lund" at Jan 22, 2001 06:50:20 PM
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> > if (0 == i)
> > {
> > foo(i);
> > bar(i);
> > }
vs.
> > if (0 == i) {
> > foo(i);
> > bar(i);
> > }
[ ... ]
> Unfortunately, there is no objective way to decide which style makes the
> code easier to read. Take a look through the FreeBSD sources, and you
> may realize what sort of flame war you have just started. At least this
> is closer to topic than the discussion on mobile phones.
Actually, I think style preference has a lot to do with the
tools you use, particularly your editor.
The second version lets me hit "$%" in vi, for example, to do
a quick block skip, if the block of code in question is not of
interest (e.g. if I knew 'i' was not zero).
I have also seen a lot of "qed" users, who don't like the block
spacing used:
> > if (0 == i) {
> > foo(i);
> > bar(i);
> > }
And prefer:
> > if( 0 == i) {
> > foo( i);
> > bar( i);
> > }
For similar editor usage reasons.
As to comparing zero to 'i', instead of the other way around, well...
}B^).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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