When I was a student I used to put curly braces on the same line, so that there are fewer lines, and the code gets printed on fewer pages. Looking at a single bracket character printed as the only thing in a line is annoying. (environment,paper wastage)

2017年3月11日 · There are three places in any block of code where you want to insert or delete a line: before the existing first line, between two existing lines, after the last existing line. The second is easy. The first and third are what dictate the position of …

I like ruby's approach here. It offers the perl style single-line <statement> if <condition> or a multiline block style if <condition> / <do something> / end (ruby avoids braces, so here the opening brace is implied by if and the end brace is replaced by a literal end). It doesn't even offer the weird multiline-but-really-just-single-line if ...

Code is not one line, no one is reading single line. The code is functions and function body is readable when it fits in one screen. Extra new lines are not helping. Opposite - it makes the code more un-readable. The new line separate paragraphs in the books and the articles. The paragraphs are split by the story. That makes it more readable!

2013年2月27日 · It probably also has something to do with the fact that curly braces are used in set notation in mathematics, making them somewhat awkward to use for array element access, rather than things like declaring "set"-ish things like structs, arrays, etc. Even modern languages like Python use curly braces to declare sets and dictionaries.

2012年11月7日 · Indentation tells you where you are, in both styles of syntax. If you write either a VB program or a C# program on a single line, you will soon not be able to tell where in the nested syntax you are. The machine parses the block ending phrases or …

The problem, in general with KR brace style is in code refactoring. When moving code around it is easy to miss that there are no braces around something, move it incorrectly (or move something under it thinking it is conditionally executed) and then either scratch your head when something no longer works, or be unfortunate and be in a code area not well tested and the bug goes …

Note: This question is different from the question of "Should I use brackets for single-line blocks." Most languages don't have another way of delimiting multi-line blocks. In most languages, there is only one way (eg. curly braces) for multiline blocks. Here is a simple example of where I like to use the 'without brackets' approach:

2017年9月15日 · The only reason to use a block/compound statement aside from control flow constructs like if/else/while is if you need a nested scope, e.g. to limit the lifetime of a local variable.

2013年1月16日 · One extra line of code is not bloating code at all, unless you are writing 100's of methods in a single class, that will add hundreds of extra lines. Then again if you have hundreds of methods in a single class you have another problem altogether.