Indentation Style: Notable Styles(en.wikipedia.org) |
Indentation Style: Notable Styles(en.wikipedia.org) |
Agreeing with sibling comment too that K&R can be ok.. seems like K&R function declarations have Allman-like vertically-aligned brackets, but why not make that consistent for blocks inside the function too? 1TBS goes in the opposite direction, so not heaps of a fan of that.
I am a big fan of whitespace in code though, running afoul of various style-guides at times (like PEP8) because of the desire to put space between things to make things clearer.
I reckon code is already a very-condensed form of information, so it can help to make it easier to distinguish the meaningfully-different pieces by having some space around them. I know this is not everyone's jam, but that's what I like when reading code.
Any of these styles can obviously work, but that one little detail brings a consistency that I personally appreciate. Your mileage may obviously differ.
If only it had begin and end instead of the ugly braces we'd be in a wonderful world.
#define begin {
#define end }To me it's a bit like formatting any document nicely.. we wouldn't usually let paragraphs run into each other, and I think in general it can be helpful to split up long blocks of anything into concept-sized chunks whenever possible for easier reading! (I think of this as a type of weird antialiasing)