Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:17:39 +1300 From: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: silly C style question Message-ID: <3A6CE9C3.52CD9504@outpost.co.nz> References: <20010122170600.D4456@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> ; from j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:06:00 GMT." <3A6C6E80.4535.632D3C1@localhost>
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Freddie Cash wrote: > However, there is no such thing as "The One True Style" just as there is > no such thing as "The Perfect Pair of Pants", or "The One True Cookbook". > Everyone has their own way, and so long as it is legible to the vast > majority, then it works for me. I'm sorry, but I can't resist the temptation to quote ESR: From the jargon file entry for "indent style": > Surveys have shown the Allman and Whitesmiths styles to be the > most common, with about equal mind shares. K&R/1TBS used to be > nearly universal, but is now much less common in C (the opening > brace tends to get lost against the right paren of the guard > part in an if or while, which is a Bad Thing). Defenders of > 1TBS argue that any putative gain in readability is less > important than their style's relative economy with vertical > space, which enables one to see more code on one's screen at once. (1TBS: 1 True Brace Style) For the full entry, see: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/indent-style.html -- C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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