I'm OK with both. Peter's is my preferred solution, though.
Kenneth
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpra...@chromium.org> wrote:
> +1. Peter's is better than Maciej's is better than status quo.
>
> -- Dirk
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Michael Nordman wrote:
> >>
> >> what peter pitched and what mjs pitched are one and the same i think
> >>
> >> * When all arms of a conditional or loop are one physical line, do not
> use
> >> braces. If any arms are more than one physical line (even if they are
> one
> >> logical line), use braces on all arms.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> One possible conservative modification to the rule is that if you
> have
> >>>>> a multi-block if ... else if ... else chain, then if even one body
> has
> >>>>> braces, all should. I think that would tend to reduce rather than
> increase
> >>>>> visual noise, as all the "else" keywords would line up where right
> now they
> >>>>> look ragged.
> >>
> >> To be clear: my intent was to propose something different than Peter's
> >> suggestion. Specifically, I suggest we do *not* change the rule for a
> simple
> >> if/else statement with only two clauses. Those would still be able to
> have
> >> braces on only one of the two clauses. But if/else chains of more than
> two
> >> clauses would have to be consistent.
> >> For anyone who agreed with my suggestion, you may want to consider
> whether
> >> you still agree in light of this clarification.
> >
> > Is this formally up for a vote then?
> > For what it's worth, I think Peters is the most readable, but Maciej's is
> > better than what it is now. I find stuff like
> > if (blah)
> > blah
> > else {
> > blah
> > }
> > very distracting. But stuff like
> > if (blah)
> > blah
> > else if (blah)
> > blah
> > else if (blah) {
> > blah
> > } else
> > blah
> > is definitely even worse.
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