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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:31:51 -0800
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 26.02.2025 12:53, Ar Rakin wrote:
>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Re "goofy style"; I've seen someone preferring
>>>
>>>   while (q(a,b))
>>>       {
>>>       a=b;
>>>       f(x);
>>>       if (c>d)
>>>           {
>>>           g(y);
>>>           }
>>>       }
>>>
>>> To each his own.
>> 
>> That looks like a nightmare for the code reviewers.
>
> I cannot tell where that comes from; the person who uses it is an
> experienced Perl programmer - may that be some convention in that
> specific language context? (I can't tell.)

No, that's not a Perl convention.  Most Perl code uses K&R-style brace
placement

    while ($condition) {
        do_something();
    }

One interesting feature of Perl is that the braces are required.

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