[COFF] C with Improvements :-)

[Peter Yardley]

Yes,

I hate the dangling brace I line my braces up with the associated code block …

if (…)
	{
	blah blah blah;
	}

And I always put my variable declarations on separate lines.

> On 23 Jun 2025, at 11:25 am, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025, Warren Toomey via COFF wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Rather than talk about alic, reply with what you like/hate about your 
>> favourite language!
> 
> This will probably get me tarred and feathered, but I have a couple of 
> gripes about C:
> 
> Declaration of pointers: these days I prefer to write
> 
>    int*    p;
> 
> instead of
> 
>    int    *p
> 
> to make it clear that "p" is a pointer to an int.  Heck, I've even seen 
> such nonsense as this (fixed width font required!):
> 
>    int *a;
>    int  b;
> 
> to make the names line up.
> 
> And OK, not syntactical, but I loathe the dangling "{" as typified by K&R:
> 
> if (...) {
>    ...
> }
> 
> All the arguments I've seen for this style are utterly specious, 
> especially the one about saving a line on the screen; if so then why not 
> move the "}" up to the end of the preceding statement and save another 
> precious line?
> 
> -- Dave

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Peter Yardley
peter.martin.yardley at gmail.com