Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
>

On 2025-02-26, Ar Rakin <rakinar2@onesoftnet.eu.org> wrote:
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Sorry, I should have showed this difference in my original post.
I like the GNU style except the weird indentation before the
braces of control statements.  Not sure why they choose to indent
that way.
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The GNU style without indent before braces looks nice to me.

>
Without the weird brace indent, it has nothing to do with GNU any
more;  it's just two-space indentation, where opening braces are on
their own line instead of being "cuddled" into the previous line,
which is very common:
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 if (flag)
 {
   switch (state)
   {
     case 42:
     {
       state = 73;
       break;
     }
   }
 }
 else
 {
   statement;
 }

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There's so much vertical space wasted in that, however.
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  if (flag && (state == 42)) state = 73;
  else                       statement;

The suggested rewrite has different semantics.  Instead

    if(flag)  state = state == 42 ? 73 : state;
    else      statement;

or

    if(flag)  state != 42 || (state = 73);
    else      statement;

has the same behavior as the original.  (Disclaimer: not
compiled.)