DStyle: Braces on same line

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 13/07/14 19:24, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Wrong. There are things which are simply bad ideas.

I think that we can take it as read that I meant, "Any reasonable stylistic 
choice."  Of course, YMMV about what counts as "reasonable", but most of the 
things that people fuss over are fairly minimal differences in practice.

> I.e. you see where everything is.

Compactness can also be a disadvantage.  Some people have a preference for a 
hyper-compact style where there are minimal blank lines in the code; I accept 
their goal as valid, and I think there are cases where it can surely help, but 
it's not one that I personally find very helpful.

In fact, one reason that I've come to appreciate standard D style is the way in 
which separate opening braces actually help to space out the code into more 
obvious "paragraphs".

> This is the only argument I have heard in favour of doing this, but it is not
> actually valid. This critique might apply to Lisp style.

Well, I personally find that separate-line opening braces do make it easier to 
line up the opening and ending of scopes.  If it doesn't do anything for you, 
that's a shame; but it doesn't make the argument invalid.