Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
by zmitri on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:28PM
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It's true, he preferred the brackets formatted this way.
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For functions declarations, K&R style says braces open on new lines.
it is a sure-fire way to distinguish between developers who learnt to code a while ago from K&R and those who didn't.
I can't stand looking at braces on new lines. It is all from back when a new line was something to be treasured as displays were bad.
Actually, my copy of the second edition K&R seems to have the opening brackets on new lines when it comes to function declarations, so:
main () {
but: while (){ and: if(){
I don't have a copy of the first edition at hand but I seem to remember that it uses this same style.
//msl
The first edition has opening brackets for functions on a new line. It also used a space before parenthesis for while loops and conditionals. Return types, when required, were on the same line as a function name.
Exactly. On a 24-line VT100 display, you bet that every line was important!