New D coding convention style guide (brace formatting)

[kris]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> kris wrote:
>>
>>>  ... 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 :)
>>
>>
>> There's never enough screen real estate (but I now can't imagine 
>> working on 24 line displays like I used to).
> 
> 
> Amen. I used to print my source code out and do most of my programming 
> on paper, partly for that reason.
> Actually, I think that's what most of the {} formatting wars are about. 
> Anyone who feels their screen isn't big enough is never going to be 
> happy with one of the styles that uses lots of vertical space.
> 
> Kris, with your coding style, I always suspected your screen was much 
> bigger than mine <g>.

*blush*

It's funny, but that style was initially adopted on a vt52. Old habits 
die hard.

Years later (1989) when I convinced a corporation to splash out on 
/secondary/ monitors with *gasp* a full-length Hercules card supporting 
50 lines of text, the engineering team bought me beers for weeks 
afterward. Those were appreciated more than stock options :)