Yes, as people say, this is one of those things were TMTOWTDI really is true.

I will say, the one concrete thing (as opposed to just preference) I like about having the { on the same line of a sub or an if:

If it's a longer sub or if block, and I'm at the closing }, I can hit % in vi, and it takes me to the matching one. If it's on the same line, I see the sub name or conditional on the screen, which is _exactly_ what I want. If it's on the next line, I have to then scroll up a line to see, and the next thing I'm usually going to want to do after seeing that is % back to the end brace (to go back to where I was.) So, it annoys me to no end when people put them on the next line.

-- Kirby, WhitePages.com

In reply to Re: A Question of style. by kirbyk
in thread A Question of style. by GrandFather

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