Timeline for Should curly braces appear on their own line? [closed]
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| Jun 2, 2022 at 8:22 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| May 3, 2022 at 16:07 | comment | added | KWallace | FWIW, I like my closing brace to align under the command or keyword it is closing without anything in between. Follow the closing brace up, and the first keyword or command it meets is the thing it is closing. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 4:12 | comment | added | Liker777 | I like the 3rd option (no braces on the separate line). However difficulties come when we want to cut and paste the whole line of code to somewhere else. Than instead of pressing fast keyboard shortcut selecting the whole line, we need to spend time on researching every bracket at the end of that line. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | Daniel Cumings | I prefer braces on their own line for readability. I know people don't like the white-space, but to me being able to pick out beginning and end of brackets is more important than the extra lines that are gained from making it more compact. Also to be consistent I never assume implicit brackets. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 21:23 | comment | added | Somatic Custard | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style contains names for the various styles, as well as more information, which I found useful to know. | |
| Feb 20, 2019 at 6:06 | comment | added | Chris Smith | Coming from a visual studio background and learning Java now, I like the braces on their own line. I used these settings for IntelliJ superuser.com/a/1403486/75997 | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 17:31 | comment | added | Kirby | the older i get the less whitespace i need | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 0:42 | comment | added | Steve3p0 | This is mostly just a preference. I don't have a strong opinion on it either way, other than to say people who put curly braces on the same line should be rounded up. | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 14:30 | comment | added | Stevoisiak | This really shouldn't have an accepted answer seeing as it is mostly up to user preference. | |
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| Feb 5, 2016 at 18:54 | comment | added | Jules | Answering just the title question: no. Curly braces are social animals, and don't like being left alone. If you have only one on a line, make sure you give it some friends: "int main () {{} ..." | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 23:36 | comment | added | Phil D. | I prefer the second and third methods for readability, though I'm not sure what the convention is when the condition breaks a line and is indented. Do you indent the parenthesis as well? | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 8:52 | comment | added | Mints97 | I heard that the second style was invented by low-profile coders who were paid per LoC... That could explain why it's the predominant style at Microsoft ;) | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 13:01 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jan 17, 2013 at 11:23 | comment | added | Calmarius | Anyway I prefer the second method. I have OCD, the lack of symmetry annoys me. ;P | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 10:10 | comment | added | Calmarius | Irony: "Please be constructive!" and "closed as not constructive" | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 10:05 | comment | added | cnd | sad the question is closed. After some time of indent based syntax usage I switched to (maybe weird) another braces structure. Like your first but closing brace in the last line of block. (after code line) | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 12:22 | vote | accept | Tamara Wijsman | ||
| Feb 6, 2012 at 12:22 | vote | accept | Tamara Wijsman | ||
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| Sep 26, 2011 at 3:19 | history | closed | Jeff Atwood | not constructive | |
| Sep 26, 2011 at 3:19 | history | notice removed | Jeff Atwood | ||
| Sep 26, 2011 at 3:19 | history | unlocked | Jeff Atwood | ||
| Sep 21, 2011 at 22:34 | history | unprotected | user8 | ||
| Sep 21, 2011 at 22:34 | history | notice added | user8 | ||
| Sep 21, 2011 at 22:34 | history | locked | user8 | ||
| Sep 21, 2011 at 22:34 | history | edited | user8 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2011 at 14:51 | history | edited | ChrisF♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Apr 6, 2011 at 14:44 | answer | added | Tim O'Neil | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 6, 2011 at 14:43 | answer | added | Alexander Gessler | timeline score: 24 | |
| Apr 6, 2011 at 14:28 | history | protected | ChrisF♦ | ||
| Apr 6, 2011 at 14:14 | comment | added | user22273 | Whenever I get code from someone else that has the brackets barfed onto the ends of the if statement and tacked onto the last line of the block, the first thing I do is change it so that I can see what's happening. I get lazy sometimes when it is just one line and leave off the brackets altogether but I'm not proud of that fact. | |
| Nov 6, 2010 at 7:56 | comment | added | Christian Mann | Honestly, aren't there tools for this sort of thing? | |
| Nov 6, 2010 at 7:48 | answer | added | Christian Mann | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 18:49 | answer | added | Matthieu M. | timeline score: 17 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 17:38 | answer | added | brian_d | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 11:50 | history | bounty ended | Tamara Wijsman | ||
| Nov 5, 2010 at 6:44 | answer | added | dbza | timeline score: 126 | |
| Nov 3, 2010 at 19:56 | answer | added | OscarRyz | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 3, 2010 at 4:19 | answer | added | Digital Dude | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 2, 2010 at 22:56 | answer | added | llcf | timeline score: -2 | |
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| Nov 2, 2010 at 12:43 | answer | added | Jonathan | timeline score: 37 | |
| Nov 1, 2010 at 20:50 | answer | added | JD Isaacks | timeline score: 59 | |
| Nov 1, 2010 at 19:57 | answer | added | user1842 | timeline score: -2 | |
| Oct 30, 2010 at 5:54 | answer | added | Joanis | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Oct 30, 2010 at 2:47 | answer | added | Mark Ransom | timeline score: 44 | |
| Oct 30, 2010 at 0:56 | history | bounty started | Tamara Wijsman | ||
| Oct 30, 2010 at 0:54 | answer | added | bmb | timeline score: 26 | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 20:52 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 29, 2010 at 19:21 | history | rollback | Tamara Wijsman |
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| Oct 29, 2010 at 17:10 | history | edited | user8 |
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| Oct 29, 2010 at 17:09 | answer | added | TRiG | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 4, 2010 at 21:33 | comment | added | jkerian | Egyptian Brackets! stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/… | |
| Sep 29, 2010 at 19:15 | comment | added | Shog9 | @leeand00: oh yes. Doesn't matter how big your monitor is, it can't beat crawling over a conference-room floor covered in taped-together printouts with a Sharpie. | |
| Sep 28, 2010 at 2:10 | answer | added | AShelly | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 10:31 | vote | accept | Tamara Wijsman | ||
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| Sep 27, 2010 at 4:43 | answer | added | Stephen C | timeline score: 127 | |
| Sep 27, 2010 at 0:20 | comment | added | Shog9 | @leeand00: some of us still print out complex / unfamiliar code in order to study / annotate it. A good pretty-printer mitigates most of the problems though. | |
| Sep 26, 2010 at 23:51 | comment | added | leeand00 | The only reason this would matter would be if your IDE/editor doesn't support matching curly bracket recognition. | |
| Sep 26, 2010 at 23:43 | answer | added | jkerian | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 22, 2010 at 22:03 | answer | added | gablin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 3:59 | comment | added | Moshe | Excellent question. Can we get som esources as to where the different styles originated? | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 3:57 | answer | added | Nayrb | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 3:47 | answer | added | Ming-Tang | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Sep 11, 2010 at 0:35 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 10, 2010 at 23:24 | answer | added | Ullallulloo | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Sep 10, 2010 at 22:39 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 10, 2010 at 22:15 | history | asked | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |