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  1. Path: news.rmii.com!rainbow!gfarrow
  2. From: gfarrow@rainbow.rmii.com (Glenn Farrow)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
  5. Date: 10 Apr 1996 21:31:05 -0600
  6. Organization: SHL
  7. Message-ID: <gfarrow.829193316@rainbow>
  8. References: <4icpp9$7hr@barad-dur.nas.com> <aidan-0404961557290001@meathook.intac.com> <3165AD94.6F3A@datalytics.com> <j-jahnke-0604960016160001@ntcs-ip8.uchicago.edu> <4keejc$lpi@tpd.dsccc.com> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960411093444.20958D-100000@bud.cc.swin.edu.au>
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  11.  
  12. John Joseph Newbigin <079519@bud.cc.swin.edu.au> writes:
  13.  
  14. >But it is a lot easier to read
  15.  
  16. >if(something_happened)
  17. >{
  18. >     do_something_else();
  19. >}
  20. >is_n't_it();   :)
  21.  
  22. Nonesense.  This style is extremely annoying because it spreads the code out
  23. too much, it increases the amount you have to page around a source file.  
  24. Putting "{" on a separate line is a waste of space that should be occupied
  25. by code.
  26.  
  27.                             Glenn
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