Steve McConnell makes a pretty good case for Whitesmith's formatting in this book (at least the first edition) in the code formatting chapter: http://books.goo

Steve McConnell makes a pretty good case for Whitesmith's formatting in this book (at least the first edition) in the code formatting chapter: http://books.google.com/books/about/Code_complete.html?id=QnghAQAAIAAJ http://books.google.com/books/about/Code_complete.html?id=Qn... Of course, he presents most of the major styles, pretending to be "fair and balanced", but if you read between the lines of the "abstract block" argument, it's clear that the other styles which align keywords or grouping symbols at a different level other than the compound statements they delimit are brain damaged, or at least visually misleading.