allow line break at operators

Seebs usenet-nospam at seebs.net
Fri Aug 12 14:37:41 EDT 2011


On 2011-08-12, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> One argument I've heard from braces fans is that sometimes they want
> their own structure, which does not match the actual block structure.

EWW!

> Example:
>
> FILE* f = fopen(...);
>     // do stuff with f
>     // at this indent level
> fclose(f);
> // back to normal
>
> But really this is just working around other limitations in the
> language (i.e. lack of a with-statement equivalent).

That's horrid.

FWIW, the C idiom is:

	{
		FILE *f = ...
		...
		fclose(f);
	}

It isn't used all that widely, but it is a lot less horrible than
random indenting would be.

-s
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