[Tutor] Are you allowed to shoot camels? [kinda OT]

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Fri Feb 4 10:09:11 CET 2005


> > The reasons for the K&R style of brace winning is to do
> > with the way the brain process structure and despite
> > the subjects stated preference for the 'Pascal' style
> > they still had lower perception scores.
>
> Little nit-picking here:
>
> if(foo)
> {
> bar();
> }
>
> Is not K&R style, but Allman style. K&R style (also known as One
True
> Brace Style or 1TBS) is this:

Correct. The style you show (which I called Pascal style) is
the one that doesn't work. K&R style

> if(foo) {
> bar;
> }


Is the one that won the shootout.

With the outsider(which I dont know a name for!) beating both...

if (foo)
   {
   bar;
   }

Which is the one that Python uses...

Alan G.



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