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More on braces, I am squarely in the Allman camp for the reasons described here: http://www.experimentgarden.com/2009/07/facts-behind-code-indention-style-war.

by jrmenon 13y ago

More on braces, I am squarely in the Allman camp for the reasons described here: http://www.experimentgarden.com/2009/07/facts-behind-code-indention-style-war.html http://www.experimentgarden.com/2009/07/facts-behind-code-in... It is amazing the old-style K&R still persists. I think there was one more reason it was preferred in the early days which is not mentioned in the aforesaid link: storage space which was also expensive. The K&R style saves a new-line char which would be a significant saving in large codebases.

Hovertruck 13y ago
Reading code with K&R braces is almost unbearable to me. I don't really know why, it just seems like a wasted line and visual clutter when reading code.
frou_dh 13y ago
} else { just looks too good to be wrong. I used Allman style for my first ~10 years of programming, then switched to "compact" style†, and didn't find it a big deal to adjust. Brace concerns melt away just like parens do in Lisp. † I think K&R does make use of new line braces, for functions.