Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 08:54:38 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
I don't like the '{' it doens't tell me anything
but the '}' tells me that this is end of statement!
I do it like this:
if (ifClauseExample) {
for(forExample = 1; ;) {
if(oneLineIf)
shouldLookLikeThis();
}
}
This is of course even better ... ;-)
/Peter
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