Re: indent problem

[Alexander Terekhov]

You made my day today, GNUtian Bader.

Miles Bader wrote:
> 
> "silversurfer2025" <kietzi@web.de> writes:
> >> so how do I change the code to not put brackets of functions into
> >>    the next line?
> ...
> > OK, maybe I'll have to change myself instead of changing the standards
> > which exist.. I just liked my way of writing it better, but this might
> > only be habituation..
> 
> Maybe I should know better than to comment on coding style issues but:
> 
> I find that although I can adjust to almost any of the common C / C++
> coding conventions (though of course I have my preferences), the
> "function-beginning-brace not at the start of line" is one of the hardest
> to deal with; I find it simply makes code very hard to read.
> 
> As far as I can tell this is because my brain uses a similar strategy to
> Emacs for locating function boundaries: I quickly scan looking for the
> function-beginning-brace, and go from there.  Braces at the beginning of
> the line are unsually easy to see, as they are isolated on a line, are in a
> fixed position, and are surounded by whitespace; braces at the end of a
> line are not -- they blend, they become just another bit of puncuation.
> 
> For most control constructs, this "blending" is OK, your brain is probably
> relying mostly on indentation to follow control structure anyway.  But I
> think the beginning of the function is a more critical synchronization
> point, and needs to be more strongly demarcated.

http://www.terekhov.de/DESIGN-futex-CV.cpp

He he. Synchronization point.

regards,
alexander.