Indentation Style: Notable Styles

[voidUpdate]

You'll have to pry Allman out of my cold, dead hands. My favourite bracketing style by far, and I'm very annoyed that its a syntax error in Go

[danwills]

Agreed 100%! I haven't written in go yet but whenever there are brackets I like for them to be vertically aligned with each other like Allman (even in Python!).

Agreeing with sibling comment too that K&R can be ok.. seems like K&R function declarations have Allman-like vertically-aligned brackets, but why not make that consistent for blocks inside the function too? 1TBS goes in the opposite direction, so not heaps of a fan of that.

I am a big fan of whitespace in code though, running afoul of various style-guides at times (like PEP8) because of the desire to put space between things to make things clearer.

I reckon code is already a very-condensed form of information, so it can help to make it easier to distinguish the meaningfully-different pieces by having some space around them. I know this is not everyone's jam, but that's what I like when reading code.

[bakuninsbart]

Why? The keywords that indicate brace opening are right there, and adding a whole line with almost no information gain seems a bit unnecessary.

[volemo]

Second that. I can tolerate K&R, but the others are blasphemy.

[weinzierl]

Allman is almost perfect.

If only it had begin and end instead of the ugly braces we'd be in a wonderful world.

[tmtvl]

Same, but for GNU. I can't speak for Go, as I hate Google with a dying passion, but the Rust toolchain not supporting GNU style is a tiny part of why I don't like the language (well, I do like it conceptually, but I wouldn't want to use it for anything).

[rob74]

Interestingly enough, the K&R variant called "one true brace style" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#One_True_Bra...) is the "one true style" that is mandatory in Go (although Go is never mentioned in the article).

[floren]

Well, years kater, K had some more ideas for programming languages... :)

[eliasson]

Whitesmiths, if I remember correctly was used in Symbian C++. I remember I found it quite odd (as most things in Symbian) when I started using it. But, it grew on me and I actually thought it improved the readability.