> if (blah){
>     code...
>     code...
> }
>
> It seems this is what is being taught now.  The first way makes it so
> clear what code goes with what set of braces that the second
> way really
> bugs me!  Why is it used??  I'm sure there are folks on the list that
> use it that could tell me.
> My guess would be to save that one line - but, in that case,
> why not put
> the ending brace on the same line as the last line of code?

From experience I found that I can handle complexity within my code, as
long as it fits within one screen. Changing from the 24 line display of
the old PCs and VT100's to the 80+ lines permitted by current monitors
has realy brought a huge increase. Not wasting lines within a complex
piece of code is another. That's why I have always preferred the above
notation, even when it was considered pure evil. I tried to switch to
the } on the last code line, but this makes that last line special,
which is often inconvenient.

BTW my favourite language, Python, uses indedation instead of
syntactical elements:

   if condition:
      code
   else:
      code

Just like that. Maybe when I re-design Jal...

Wouter van Ooijen

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