Comments on: XCode: The Starting Curly Brace

By: whisk IT

whisk IT — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:49:13 +0000

Very nice!
I hadn’t quite decided which I prefer, but was aware that there were very much two camps on this. On further reflection, I’ve decided that your readability argument is the winner for me.
Thank you!

By: Scyanide

Scyanide — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:20:58 +0000

This “wasted space” has 0 impact on the code being executed. Putting the curly brace on a new line helps block off the code inside and improves readability. I highly doubt a person’s IQ level has anything to do with where they place the curly brace.

It all comes down to preference, however. Feel free to place it anywhere you want. Unless you work for a company that has standards on the format, in which case you have to do as they say. My experience has shown than many companies enforce newline curly braces for readability.

By: funny

funny — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:54:29 +0000

Funny that the morons continue to desire so strongly doing things the stupid way rather than the K&R way
good thing all source formatters and sensible defaults use K&R style so coders with IQs higher than 100 can unfuck the code created by the morons who waste space with braces on their own lines!!!

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By: Scyanide

Scyanide — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:55:34 +0000

Thanks for the info. I’ll have to check that tool out soon. Thanks.

By: hellork

hellork — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:22:46 +0000

I prefer the brace at the end, but now it doesn’t matter. GNU indent automatically adjusts the placement of brackets. It *might* work on C#, too. I wrote a simple preprocessor to automatically add missing brackets, semicolons and parenthesis. It works so well that I just crank out pseudocode and it bangs it into shape, ignoring lines that end in comments or white space. It *should* also work with C# if you want to test it out, fix bugs. http://freshmeat.net/projects/anchor

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Allman Indent Style in Xcode | www.alanchavis.com — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:56:16 +0000

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By: avalanchis

avalanchis — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:26:48 +0000

I too had problems with the quotes.

I was able to completely remove them from the command line and it worked just fine:

defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions -dict BlockSeparator \\n

Thanks for this tip!

“Opening curly braces belong on a new line” proponents of the world UNITE!

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By: Scyanide

Scyanide — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:14:52 +0000

Yeah, sorry about that Softnux. I thought of only allowing registered users comment to help ease up on possible spam. I may change this though.

Glad I could help you out!