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Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> > =item *
> >
> > Uncuddled elses: ie avoid C<} else {>
>
> Does this mean avoid:
>
> if (...) {
> ...
> } else {
> ...
> }
>
> and instead use:
>
> if (...) {
> ...
> }
> else
> {
> ...
> }
>
> If my interpretation of what it means is correct, why is the latter style
> preferred over the former style?
Don't ask me guv', I just work here.... :-)
Or more to the point, I just cribbed it from Porting/patching.pod.
A similar edict appears in pod/perlstyle.pod (although that refers to Perl,
not C). Personally I have no objection to cuddling, but it appears frowned
upon by the Perl community. If that community lets me know otherwise, I'll
happily change it.
I also assumed that this is allowed:
}
else {
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