Basic coding style

[sybrandy]

> Seriously, I fail to see how braces one their own line help visually catching code structure (and it's not only me ;-)
>

For me, it really helps me make sure that I'm not missing a brace as I 
can see them line up visually.  It's easier to see the missing brace in 
code that looks like this:

if (condition)
{
    foo();
}

Than this:

if (condition) {
     foo();
}

Yes, this is a simplified case, but if you start multiple levels of 
nesting, it can be confusing.

Of course, a Erlang/Haskell/Python style indentation syntax does work, 
but then, IMHO, it works best if your functions are very small.  Of 
course, I've never done any Python development, however I have done 
Erlang and Haskell in the past and the fact that they really make it 
easier to write small functions helps a lot.

Smaller functions are better in all languages, but at least with code 
I've seen for Java and some D, methods can end up being fairly long.

Casey