Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> Hm, I've used this before, always have.
>> IMHO it looks much better this way, and is easier to edit around...
>> I do take care to have the 'else' in the line just above 'if'.
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> It's unfortunate if this style has found its way into other places in our codebase.
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>> But whatever, if Greg is surprised by it, not many people will be using my
>> way. Will fix, but now it's high time for bed.
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> I don't think it's a question of anybody being surprised, or one style is better than another or Greg being the bees-knees or anything like that. Long ago we picked a coding standard, and it just happened to be the "else if (..." style. I'm sure I don't have to enumerate the benefits to being consistent in our style, but suffice it to say it's the way The World is.
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> (FWIW, I personally prefer "if (...) {", but we don't do that, either. Old habits die hard.)
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> -Hyrum
I said *whatever* already :)
we have boundaries in which style is allowed. wasn't aware that this is such
a catastrophe... will fix and heed. whatever.
This is definitely less confusing and less important than some of our API
docco. :P
~Neels
Received on 2010-03-12 04:35:23 CET