Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 2/25/25 10:17 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Ar Rakin <rakinar2@onesoftnet.eu.org> writes:

On 2/25/25 9:23 PM, David LaRue wrote:

I used a style similar to this in school.  Before that I used much the same.
As for existing code bases I prefer to keep their style and add comments
accordingly.  That generally goes for any language.

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Agreed. For existing projects, the code style should be preserved.
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Popularity of a style shouldn't be a goal.  It should be consistantly
readable and documented.  We must write for ourselves as well as our future
self and others.

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This is true. I just wanted to know which style most people seem to prefer.
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Thanks for your response!

 I prefer the AT&T style (which you call GNU style, but which actually
predates Stallman).
 The vi(1) editor has several commands that are designed to support
the AT*T (or more properly, Bell Labs) style, such as the '[['
and ']]' commands.   Starting a function definition with
the function name in column 1 enables the use of the VI
   /^main
 command to easily move the cursor to the start of a named function.
 

Interesting to know! The only time I have seen the AT&T/GNU C style is when I contributed to GNU projects.
Now I see that GNU projects tend to follow AT&T styles often - the GNU Assembler by default uses AT&T syntax for i386/x86_64 architectures, makes sense now.