kdelibs coding style

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 23 July 2006 10:59, mETz wrote:
> Btw, I did not hear any argument _against_ having curly braces on a
> line of their own yet except for "but we don't want to change this
> style, either all or nothing"... ;)

A possible argument against this is that with having curly braces not on 
a line of their own the code is more compact vertically which means 
less vertical screen estate is "wasted" and you can see a bit more code 
without scrolling, e.g. compare

if ( a < b ) {
    do something
    ...
} else {
    do something else
    ...
}

with

if ( a < b )
{
    do something
    ...
}
else
{
    do something else
    ...
}

Moreover, curly braces on a line of their own do in fact distract me 
more than they help me, but that's probably just because most of the 
code I usually look at doesn't put them on a line of their own.

Regards,
Ingo
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