Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 26.02.2025 12:53, Ar Rakin wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

>
Re "goofy style"; I've seen someone preferring
>
  while (q(a,b))
      {
      a=b;
      f(x);
      if (c>d)
          {
          g(y);
          }
      }
>
To each his own.

 
That looks like a nightmare for the code reviewers.

>
I cannot tell where that comes from; the person who uses it is an
experienced Perl programmer - may that be some convention in that
specific language context? (I can't tell.)

No, that's not a Perl convention.  Most Perl code uses K&R-style brace
placement

    while ($condition) {
        do_something();
    }

One interesting feature of Perl is that the braces are required.

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