Thread: Curly Brace Placement

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Originally Posted by Thantos

Allman style or death!

I think you mean:

Code:

all

man
                  style



or  




































                                        DEATH!

Wel, I use Allman style if it's some long code block, like a whole class or something with a bunch of code, otherwise I use the other one. The one which looks like this:

Code:

void SayHi(){
        std::cout<< "Hi!" <<std::endl;
}

Originally Posted by Sharke

I think anyone with this kind of mental illness will be drawn to the Allman style. It's Feng Shui, man!

Feng Shui for dim-wits, I think you mean. A sort of false Feng Shui, aka anal retentiveness -- you are much closer to the truth when you call it neurotic.

I studied perl before C and had the exact opposite experience re: formatting and indentation. Not that I did not systematically indent and format my code, I just did in a somewhat more concise manner. The perl issue around "use strict" (pretty much settled by now) might be a parallel since it involves scoping, but in a syntactically meaningful way.

However, I am gradually enjoying more widespace as I mature. But I would never go allman unless forced to.

Originally Posted by Sharke

I'm the kind of person who can't concentrate if there's a book on the desk that's sitting at an angle. In the local library as a kid I'd walk up and down the shelves making sure every book was pushed back as far as it would go. When I'm walking the dog if I look down and one of his ears is turned inside out it drives me crazy - I have to stop and flip it back over. That kind of thing.

I think anyone with this kind of mental illness will be drawn to the Allman style. It's Feng Shui, man!

You might want to get some SSRI's from your doctor and see if that helps with your OCD. I might be a little obsessive, but if nowhere near as bad as that.

However, if you make a "high quality code" mentioned on "Code Complete" book, using PDL you'll definetly prefer the #1 style.

Code:

//whenever the current element's value is more than the next element's
if(element[i] > element[i+1]) {
  //then swap the current element to the next one
  swap(element[i], element[i+1]);
}

instead of..

Code:

//whenever the current element's value is more than the next element's
if(element[i] > element[i+1])
{
  //then swap the current element to the next one
  swap(element[i], element[i+1]);
}

Originally Posted by audinue

However, if you make a "high quality code" mentioned on "Code Complete" book, using PDL you'll definetly prefer the #1 style.

What is this nonsense? Quality has nothing to do with style!

>if you make a "high quality code" mentioned on "Code Complete"
>book, using PDL you'll definetly prefer the #1 style.
I don't see any meaningful difference. Could you point out why the #1 style is so preferred over the #2 style when using PDL?

What is PDL?

Elysia: Did I say styles absolutely does something to quality?


Prelude: Did you try it?

Originally Posted by cpjust

You might want to get some SSRI's from your doctor and see if that helps with your OCD. I might be a little obsessive, but if nowhere near as bad as that.

I'm in the terrible position of having a family member with severe obsessive compulsive disorder. Needing to have things at just such an angle is not even remotely close to the horrors. I don't want to get into the depressing details, but it's not about quirkiness. It's a complete inability to function in the real world.

Have you seen Jack Nicholson in the movie "As Good As It Gets?" That doesn't even remotely come close. It's a debilitating, terrible, awful, disease that not only ruins your own life but that of everybody around you who cares about you.

Jeez.