While Allman style can be very pleasing, it requires the right language, as certain language features will make it off putting to see it used in some places in

While Allman style can be very pleasing, it requires the right language, as certain language features will make it off putting to see it used in some places in not others. For things like C, it makes sense. For languages that use braces for blocks inline (e.g. Perl), you're going to constantly have a mix of Allman style braces and inline/infix braces if you use the language features in a useful manner. Put another way, style is something that should be chosen per language, perhaps with very similar languages having a style that it makes sense for you to share across them. A blind adherence to any specific style across languages is not necessarily useful. This is obvious when you consider languages as disparate as C, Lisp and APL, but it applies similarly, if more subtly, to languages that aren't nearly as different as those are from each other at first glance.