Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A brace vs. indentation hypothesis (was Re: Braces are not Compiler-Fluff.)
Message-ID: <1989Jan16.120659.18777@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 16 Jan 89 20:31:39 GMT
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Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton):
>       "Hint:  keep those braces as close
>        to their related syntactic element
>        as possible, or yer FIRED!.  Well, not
>        fired, per se, but I'll leave coding the
>        bitmaps for you to do..."

IMHO, this:

	if (condition && test) {
	    action();
	}

puts about 2 inches between "if" and "{", whereas this:

	if (condition)
	{
	}

makes the "if" and "{" adjacent.

I see two dimensions when I look at a program.  Apparently, not everyone
does.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg             <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
A T Engineering             Me?  Speak for my company?  Surely you jest!
	  "It's no good.  They're tapping the lines."