What Style Do You Code?

[Kier]

All vBulletin 3 code follows this standard:

if ($condition == 'moo')
{
    // cow
}
else if ($condition == 'baa')
{
    // sheep
}
else
{
    // alien
} 

ie: Newline before all braces, braces inline with loop initialisation code, with contents indented by a single tab. 'else if' rather than 'elseif'. All operators separated by spaces ($condition == 'baa' / $x = 1; $str = 'baa' . $var . 'moo'; etc.)

[Kier]

At some point in the future I will publish the vBulletin 3 Code Standards Document to which the devs have adhered during this project.

[CeleronXT]

All vBulletin 3 code follows this standard:

if ($condition == 'moo')
{
// cow
}
else if ($condition == 'baa')
{
// sheep
}
else
{
// alien
} 

ie: Newline before all braces, braces inline with loop initialisation code, with contents indented by a single tab. 'else if' rather than 'elseif'. All operators separated by spaces ($condition == 'baa' / $x = 1; $str = 'baa' . $var . 'moo'; etc.)

Awww, pewp.

[fury]

I usually go for Style 1, it is the style I learned to do in mIRC (my first experience with any kind of interpreting language)

I am going to try to lean towards style 2 in the future though, if only for the fact that it makes it easier for people who don't have bracket matching like in TextPad to look through the code.

Just curious what style everyone here codes in.. I myself am style 1.

Style 1:

if (condition) {
   // do something here
} elseif (condition) {
   // do something else
} else {
   // do something else
} 

Style 2:

if (condition)
  {
   // do something here
  }
elseif (condition)
  {
   // do something else
  }
else
  {
   // something else
  } 

Style 3:

if (condition) {
   // do something here
}
elseif (condition) {
   // do something else
}
else {
   // final action
} 

[rebby]

I use Style 1, I find Style 2 extreamly hard to read for some reason.

ditto.

[Radgam]

I use Style 1, I find Style 2 extreamly hard to read for some reason.

Same here.

i've always used Style 1 (although i indent content between { n' } ) when coding as it was generally what was used in perl books so i'm most used to that style. I think it looks neat, and tidy but for long amounts of coding it's sometimes too crampt so i'll spread it out a bit:

if (condition) {

/* do something here
lots of
coding here
*/

} 

For PHP i sometimes move more towards Style3 because i don't like the way homesite displays PHP coding but it's also just because i'm a php n00b

[GameCrash]

When programming PHP, I use Style 1 as I really like compact code...

When programming C#, I use something like Style 2 (this is the standard formatting setting in Visual Studio .NET and I got accustomed to it before I found the switch to change this

[RixiuS]

Style 2, and Style 3 sometimes.

[i am coo man]

Style 1, because its soo goshdarn sexy!

I like it cause its compact and looks cool. But I can't deny that style 2 (without indended braces and code) is easier to read.

BTW!! Why the heck would anyone use else if instead of elseif ???

[Jerry]

BTW!! Why the heck would anyone use else if instead of elseif ???

readability, convention, personal preference.

[Chroder]

I use style 2 without those crazy spaces there. I find it easier to note the different code blocks if the braces are on the new line, while in style 1 I struggle to find where things start/end.

[Alcar]

Style 5.

Alcar...

[poolking]

I'm still learning php, so I don't really know what style I code in.

[Dean C]

I code like Kier - can't go wrong there

[Cyborg from DH]

I code with my style:

http://www.deluxeportal.com/specs/coding_standards.php