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Subject: Re: c code "beautifier"

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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