Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 05:29:39 12/03/03
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On December 03, 2003 at 06:46:45, Tord Romstad wrote: >On December 02, 2003 at 13:38:06, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >>Now I need some source code beautifier which can produce smth like (my prefered >>style): >> >>if (ifClauseExample) >>{ >> for (forExample = 1; ;) >> { >> if (oneLineIf) >> shouldLookLikeThis(); >> } >>} > >I've always wondered why people like to have lines containing only a >brace and nothing else. It limits the amount of code you can see on >the screen without scrolling (or the amount of code which fits on one >page of a printout) without adding any information at all. It also >doesn't improve the readability, if you read the block structure by >indentation rather than by counting braces. > >I would have written the above code like this: > >if (ifClauseExample) { > for(forExample = 1; ;) { > if(oneLineIf) > shouldLookLikeThis(); }} > >Much more compact and readable, IMHO. > >Tord and it would drive my boss nuts :) anthony
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