Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!orc!inews!hopi!bhoughto From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Braces Message-ID: <2360@inews.intel.com> Date: 7 Feb 91 17:56:47 GMT References: <2324@inews.intel.com> <15102@smoke.brl.mil> <64002@brunix.UUCP> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ Lines: 20 In article <64002@brunix.UUCP> gvr@cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly) writes: >The jargon file, version 2.5.1, has this to say on the matter of >indent styles: Thanks, George. I knew there'd be an authoritative answer, somewhere. (Gotta uncompress that jargon directory...) > "Whitesmiths style" --- popularized by the examples that came > with Whitesmiths C, an early commercial C compiler. Basic indent > per level shown here is 8 spaces, but 4 is occasionally seen. > if (cond) > { > > } Bingo. Whitesmiths. PC-land. When I get my HP "Jaguar" and need an 8088-based C, maybe I'll do it, too. --Blair "'Nuff sed."