God, Allman indentation style is such pain... God bless K&R...

For those who don't know, Allman is this:
void foo(void)
{
statement;
statement;
}

and K&R is this:
void bar(void) {
statement;
statement;
}

Thank you DevRant for removing whitespaces...

Well thats not entirely correct. K&R look like that for if, while, and for statements. For functions it look like Allman. Like this:

int main()
{
if(something){
statement;
}
return 0;
}

What you probably are referring to is the True Bracket Style. (1TBS)

So what does Compiler understands?🤣

@prvInSpace Good point and perfectly true. And although I am preferring 1TBS, original K&R is still makes more sense to me than Allman...

I think it has to do with the first code language that you are introduced to. I started with Delphi 7 and we were forced to follow Allman for those four years. So now anything else just feels wrong.

I can read either.

I use both K&R and 1TBS. It depends on which programming language I am using. For C I always use K&R and for Java I only use 1TBS.

The one I can't stand is the GNU one. It's so horrible.

Allman for life dont @ me

The correct way to format code is the way your IDE automatically formats it and is consistent with your team.

I'm in the "it's what you learned initially" boat. For me, it's TBS all the way (from early c, c++ days). IMO, it's so much easier to visually identify matching brackets.

what
about (gnu coding,
standards which)
{
are sometimes;
very confusing;
sometimes = "hard to read";
very = "painful to use";

but_i_love_it (VERY (confusing),
ARE (sometimes));
return confusing; /* software */
}

As a Haskell dev:

What are brackets? What are tabs? What are 4 spaces? What are semicolons? What is readability? What is existence? Why is my cognac glass empty?

@bittersweet oh my god...

@bittersweet you poor, innocent soul

@austudo I'm neither poor nor innocent, but I am tormented.

Allman is clearly the best for readability.

'Seeing' scope as you scroll down makes it so much clearer.

Indenting isn't a problem with a half-decent IDE

But 1TBS / K&R is just vile to look at. The scopes are lost.

And I'm a C / C++ programmer. Never (would) touch Java, even with a shitty stick.

I'm now in macOS / iOS land, and I still want to punch whoever it was at Apple that forced 1TBS. I can't even get the damn IDE to adopt Allman.

But then my coding style is to have 3 blank lines between every method / function and have all grouped assignments vertically justified.