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From: jamiller@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: if (e1) return e2; [else] s1;
Message-ID: <5940027@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 90 19:45:45 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>>    Ok, style mavens, which is "better":
>>
>>    if (e1) return e2;                    if (e1) return e2;
>>    else s1;                              s1;

I'd vote for the second one.

>
>or 'Allman' (the names came from an 'emacs' manual, BTW):
>
>     if (e1)
>	 {
>	 s1;
>	 }

I like that one, because I prefer the following:

     if (e1) {
	 s1;
	 }

(IMHO) I don't think I "lose" anything by putting the { with the if, but I
think I do if the } is not on a separtate line.

   jim  miller