Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:23:35 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: silly C style question Message-ID: <200101231023.f0NANZI18506@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <20010122170600.D4456@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from j mckitrick at "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:06:00 %2B0000" References: <20010122170600.D4456@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Monday, 22nd January 2001, j mckitrick wrote:
>This is a trivial question, but I get hung up on details, so I'm gonna ask
>anyway. ;)
"I'm here for an argument."
"Is that a 5 minute argument, or the full half hour?"
>When using opening and closing braces for a loop or other control structure,
>most coders put the opening brace on the same line as the decision
>statement. It seems to me, using it in more of a block format would make
>the code easier to read. Does this make sense?
>
>if (0 == i)
>{
> foo(i);
> bar(i);
>}
>
>versus
>
>if (0 == i) {
> foo(i);
> bar(i);
>}
Use neither of these! Use:
if (i == 0)
{
foo(i);
bar(i);
}
You Know It Makes Sense(tm).
Stephen.
PS The full justification for disagreeing with most of the civilised
world can be yours for the price of an enquiring email.
PPS `0 == i' is so clearly wrong I can't explain it further.
PPPS The official GNU style is the ugliest I've ever seen, and it's
hard to imagine a worse one. Glad you didn't bring it up here.
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