Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.c > #3757

Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"?

Show all headers | View raw

Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> writes:
> On 5/10/11 2:22 PM, Seebs wrote:
[...]
>> There is no way to pick a standard except by appeal to authority.
>> Therefore, use the brace style from K&R.  That's the closest
>> we'll ever have to a proper authority.
>
> 1TBS as found in K&R 1st and 2nd Edn has the opening brace of a function 
> on a line on its own, left justified.  Inside a function, yes, the 
> braces are at the end of a line after the condition or loop or whatever. 
>   But the function braces are both flush left.

I think that's because old-style function definitions had (ok, still
have) the parameter declarations between the function name and the
opening '{':

int main()
int argc;
char **argv;
{
    /* ... */
}

With prototypes, there's less reason for this exception.  I sometimes
put the opening brace for a function definition at the end of the
line, depending on my mood (and, of course, on whatever coding
standards I'm working under):

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    /* ... */
}

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

Back to comp.lang.c | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 09:00 -0700
  Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Tom St Denis <tom@iahu.ca> - 2011-05-10 10:08 -0700
  Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-05-10 10:30 -0700
    Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 15:54 -0700
    Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 15:56 -0700
      Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-10 17:41 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-05-10 21:07 -0700
    Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 19:32 -0400
      Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-05-10 23:32 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> - 2011-05-11 11:49 -0400
          Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-05-11 14:19 -0700
  Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-10 10:37 -0700
  Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? "Kleuskes & Moos" <kleuske@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-10 13:34 -0700
    Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-05-10 21:22 +0000
      Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? "Kleuskes & Moos" <kleuske@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-10 16:00 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-05-11 03:16 +0000
      Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-11 12:32 +1200
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-10 17:56 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-05-10 21:09 -0700
          Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-11 16:14 +1200
            Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-05-10 21:19 -0700
              Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-11 16:26 +1200
              Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2011-05-11 07:10 +0100
                Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-11 20:50 +1200
                Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2011-05-11 18:53 +0100
              Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley@gmail.com> - 2011-05-11 11:23 -0400
            Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-05-11 05:30 +0000
      Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> - 2011-05-10 21:26 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-11 08:07 -0700
      Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-11 06:04 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-05-11 09:42 -0400
    Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-10 17:34 -0700
      Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 08:44 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-12 13:41 -0400
          Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-05-12 12:08 -0700
            Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 15:28 -0700
        Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-12 11:49 -0700
          Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? David Mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 08:56 -0700
            Re: compiler switch to indicate "end of function"? "robertwessel2@yahoo.com" <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-14 00:03 -0700

csiph-web