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Poll: Allman or K&R Indentation?
Just wondering what HN prefers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style
- TNO 15y agoA language that avoids the question
- kieni 15y agoDepends on the language. For me, Allman is easier (==cleaner) to read.
- jam 15y agoK&R, but technically more like 1TBS (as described on Wikipedia).
- rednum 15y agoSomething like 1TBS style. I it is quite popular among my friends and different to both K&R and Allman. You could add it to the poll, since there are few votes at the moment and bias won't be too big.
- lurch_mojoff 15y agoI'm definitely in the K&R camp. I keep alternating between 1TBS and Compact Control Readability, depending on the preferences of the other members of the team working on that particular project. I personally prefer Compact Control Readability.
- Peteris 15y agoThere are some languages, e.g., javascript, which practically force you to use K&R. In C++ and Java, I always prefer Allman though. Of course it is more readable than K&R, but, I think the choice is driven by the editor. I use Vim, which makes it dead easy to manipulate lines as a whole. I also like to have single statements without braces, so it is much easier for me to to quickly remove stray '{'s or add them as needed when the number of statements changes within a block.
- dfreidin 15y agoI personally prefer Allman, but if I'm working with existing code, I'll use whatever style the code already uses.
- ChuckMcM 15y agoI find the 1TBS style maximizes the number of lines I can get on the screen which helps in understanding what the code is doing. I don't miss the opening brace because when I see the closing brace I can go straight up to the controlling statement. A variant that Sun used to use was that for functions you defined them thusly: int function_name(args) { ... } The benefit was that grep '^function_name' *.c would turn up the file with the definition (vs the prototypes which were of the form int function_name(...))