IIRC some old unix book recommended splitting type declaration, prototype and body on different lines, like this: int myFunc(char *str, int strlen)

IIRC some old unix book recommended splitting type declaration, prototype and body on different lines, like this: int myFunc(char *str, int strlen) { <body> } with the rationale being that grepping for ^myFunc (or searching for it in vi) would have found the function declaration immediately. Not sure I like that, anyway.