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

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.

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.