Indenting standards religions K&R, whitesmiths etc

[Cecil Ward]

On Thursday, 1 June 2023 at 09:37:43 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 16:24:38 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
>> I wanted to ask how some of the leaders of our group feel 
>> about D indentation standards. `i realise that this causes 
>> some religious fervour in C. I could be in trouble here 
>> because in all my years at work, we never used K & R ‘one true 
>> brace style’ indenting, with the house style I’m used to being 
>> more like whitesmiths. Wikipedia explains this better. 
>> Something like the following below.
>>
>> So my question: would I get lynched for the following? (below)
>
> Check out this module from me: 
> https://github.com/dukc/nuklearbrowser/blob/master/source/nuklearbrowser.d
>
> Plus similar style in most of my posts and bug reports. I'm 
> still alive :D.
>
> Your code is your code. There, you may do as you wish. You have 
> to aknowledge that an esoteric style may make it more difficult 
> to read for some, but we're not lynching people for other 
> factors of code readability either. Brace style is no different.
>
> Plus, what brace style is considered readable by the majority 
> is a culture issue. There has to be some way to challege the 
> established culture. If you don't exercise your power to code 
> as you wish, someone will make your choice for you. Coding 
> culture, or even culture in general, cannot develop if people 
> never challege the present status quo.
>
> When you're coding with others, though, then you should obey 
> the style guideline of that project if there is one. Even there 
> you're as entitled as anyone for an opinion what the style 
> policy should be (and to whether there should be style policy 
> at all), but you then should (usually) obey the decision 
> regardless whether it's the one you were advocating for.

Agree completely. You are not a criminal though because your 
closing braces are not indented out with the block they’re 
closing as I do.

I find K&R hard to read even though we see it everywhere, or 
variants of it. I do wonder if my style in that earlier post 
hurts normal people’s eyeballs a lot. ;-)

I’m told that Irish speakers can’t understand Scottish Gaelic on 
the radio a native speaker said to me that ‘it’s just a noise’. 
But as a ScG learner myself I can understand some spoken Irish 
even though I’ve never really studied the modern language (only 
the stuff of more that 1100 yrs ago.) So the pain isn’t 
symmetrical.