Basic coding style
Max Samukha
spambox at d-coding.com
Tue Nov 23 16:03:17 PST 2010
On 11/23/2010 11:18 PM, spir wrote:
> Seriously, I fail to see how braces one their own line help visually catching code structure
I agree that brace alignment has little to do with catching code
structure. It is more about symmetry. And visual symmetry of braces in
code is a matter of preference. I prefer symmetry. I have read and
written quite a lot of code in various coding styles and aligned braces
still look and feel cleaner to me, no matter how hard I try to be unbiased.
Regarding that vertical space argument, in my experience, big contiguous
chunks of code are rarely read or written in one go (except when you are
unlucky to read one of those just-get-the-job-done(TM) functions
spreading a few dozens of screens). So saving vertical space is not a
big concern in practice. And if you are using a good IDE, it is no
concern at all.
> (and it's not only me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
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