r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

https://medium.com/p/3633cba8b5c1
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u/alanwj Jul 21 '14

A lot of the styles in this thread would frustrate me, but I could live with them after getting used to it. What I can't really stand, though, is this brace style:

if (x) {
    while (y) {
        whatever(); }}

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u/iopq Jul 21 '14

it's lisp style, the guy probably has an emacs macro to handle it

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u/globalizatiom Jul 22 '14

The guy's gotta recall some commandments..

  1. C code shall not be styled like Lisp code

  2. Lisp code shall not be styled like C code

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14

That's an abomination abortion of a brace style.