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| From | jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: a style question: |
| Date | 2015-08-31 09:52 +0000 |
| Organization | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| Message-ID | <d4imfdF2mc7U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (permalink) |
| References | <8d16838c-60db-4fd2-b401-737ee2601d1d@googlegroups.com> |
G G <gdotone@gmail.com> wrote:
> i am seeing some code that has the function return type on a separate line like
> int
> function( double a)
> {
> ...
> }
> i'm just curious, is there a name for this style?
I'm not sure if it's something that was popularized by GNU,
but at least it's in their style recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Formatting.html#Formatting
> and why use this style other than the project uses this style?
I use it quite often since it makes searching for the start
of a function (instead of also all calls of the function)
easier with regex searches. And, at least to me, it looks
also quite nice.
Regards, Jens
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