Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 03:50:38 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
It's more a personal taste and what your are familiar to.Some people like to see
as much as possible on the screen. Some people like to see where end what code,
and like to see the braches above each other.
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