Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

[Miles Bader]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>3i. if/else/do/while/for/switch
>>	space between if/else/do/while and following/preceeding
>>	statements/expressions, if any
>
> Why this? if(a) {} is not any worse than if (a).

Well it's harder to read (because it makes control constructs look more
like function calls).  And a bit uglier.

But anyway, coding styles are rarely about "worse" versus "better",
they're about keeping things consistent so that it's easier to read
code.

-Miles
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