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I hate that formatting style personally.

• pentagone 5y ago
  > First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture. - The doc on Linux kernel coding style
• junon 5y ago
  Me too. I've never understood it. I just went back through the clang-format documentation and looked at some of the examples for the GNU style and was reminded at how utterly unreadable the resulting code is.
  • enriquto 5y ago
    The rationale for this style seems to be to make it appealing to Lisp programmers, which will find it familiar. I also dislike it for C (as much as I appreciate GNU's contribution). As we all know, K&R is the one true style.
    • morelisp 5y ago
      Nah, "utterly unreadable" is the right description.
    • junon 5y ago
      I've not written a lot of lisp (I understand it, just never had a need for it personally) so perhaps I'm ignorant, but I don't see how it's at all similar to Lisp. It just looks different for the sake of being different.
• wirrbel 5y ago
  I never worked in a codebase that was formatted in this style and surely its weird and not at all what I am used to. But I somehow from looking at the examples find it to be somewhat pleasant. Doesn't mean I would pick it as my standard but I can see how one could. I do prefer putting opening braces at the line end in all situations though (but that also rules out a lot of other styles).