Brace placement style. A lot of people tend to be very religious about this. 

# The best way...
if (something)
   {
   do something;
   do some more;
   }
else
   {
   whatever;
   whatever;
   }

# The acceptable style:
if (something)
{
   do something;
   do some more;
}
else
{
   whatever;
   whatever;
}

# The classic K&R style (ugh):
if (something) {
   do something;
   do some more;
} else {
   whatever;
   whatever;
}

# The conversational style...
if (something) {do something; do some more} else {whatever; whatever}

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I'm not sure if there's any major variants that I've missed.

sas

In reply to Re^2: poll ideas quest 2007 by sasdrtx
in thread poll ideas quest 2007 by ysth

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