Seriously, I fail to see how braces one their own line help visually catching
code structure (and it's not only me ;-)
For me, it really helps me make sure that I'm not missing a brace as I
can see them line up visually. It's easier to see the missing brace in
code that looks like this:
if (condition)
{
foo();
}
Than this:
if (condition) {
foo();
}
Yes, this is a simplified case, but if you start multiple levels of
nesting, it can be confusing.
Of course, a Erlang/Haskell/Python style indentation syntax does work,
but then, IMHO, it works best if your functions are very small. Of
course, I've never done any Python development, however I have done
Erlang and Haskell in the past and the fact that they really make it
easier to write small functions helps a lot.
Smaller functions are better in all languages, but at least with code
I've seen for Java and some D, methods can end up being fairly long.
Casey
