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Re: Indentation styles

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On 07/05/2013 16:23, Stefan Ram allegedly wrote:
> markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> writes:
>> I don't see why code can't be formatted for its intended audience either.
> 
>   The formatting too is part of the message I want to convey,
>   so to me it would not be the same message anymore.

<snippalot />

All fair and well, but one aspect that you have not covered and that to
me is of import, is the comment-out-ability. That is, because I care
about being able easily to comment-out/decomment stuff, I usually don't
mix parts of the block descriptor (flow-control, method descriptor,
etc.) and statements.

To exemplify, if I wrote...
  void foo()
  { bar();
    boom();
    bang();
  }
... and subsequently decided that I didn't want to bar() after all, I'd
have to alter the structure. So I'll either write:
  void foo()
  {
    bar();
    boom();
    bang();
  }
or
  void foo() {
    bar();
    boom();
    bang();
  }

While I understand, rationally, the arguments for the former, for some
eerie reason it hasn't really caught on to me, and I've mainly stuck to
the latter. But YMMV.

-- 
DF.

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        Re: Indentation styles Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-05-08 17:56 -0300
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              Re: Indentation styles Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-13 19:04 -0400
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                Re: Indentation styles Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-17 19:42 -0400
                Re: Indentation styles Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-13 20:53 -0400
                Re: Indentation styles Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-05-14 13:07 +0200
                Re: Indentation styles Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-05-15 18:47 -0300
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                Re: Indentation styles Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-05-17 19:44 -0300
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      Re: Indentation styles Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-05-08 11:12 -0700
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