Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!smh From: smh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Steven M. Haflich) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Our friends, }' - (nf) Message-ID: <497@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 11:04:59 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddie.497 Posted: Mon Jul 25 11:04:59 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Jul-83 16:57:57 EDT References: <69@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 I have always formated my C code as follows: for (...) { ... } This is an abbreviation of the more rational: for (...) { ... } Since I rarely make listings and usually only see my code through a standard (but small) 24-line CRT window, the saved lines make more code visible at one time. Even when dealing with listings, I find the more fits on a page, the easier to read largish programs. For the same reasons, I have no compunction about formatting short, clear, "idiomatic" code blocks this way: if (argc>1) { pname = *argv++; argc--; } Steve Haflich