New D coding convention style guide (brace formatting)

[kris]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://thc.segfault.net/root/phun/unmaintain.html
>>>  From - Mon
>>
>>
>> Speaking of which (but seriously), we may not get a consensus on tabs, 
>> and maybe justifiedly so, but one other thing with DMD's coding 
>> convention that troubles me is the braces formatting:
>>
>>     if (b)
>>     {    dg();
>>          return true;
>>     }
>>
>> ... whoa :/ . Where did that come from? It's unusual (I personally 
>> have never seen C-family code formatted that way), and seems awkward 
>> to me. 
> 
> 
> It's just:
> 
>     if (b)
>     {
>        dg();
>        return true;
>     }
> 
> compressed to save precious vertical screen space.


  ... get a flat-panel that can be rotated into portrait mode. The 24" 
Dell displays more lines of code (in portrait orientation) than you can 
shake a stick at :)