In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226> , Philippe Lhoste 
<Phi### [at] GMXnet>  wrote:

> More on the topic, Kernighan & Richie's C style, ie. with opening soft brace
> on the same line of the statement, were used in their book. It was the
> learning book of most C programmers. That's why their style was so widely
> used. Probably the same for the POV-Ray style...
> I used K&R first, then I saw good arguments on the aligned braces style, and
> since then I sticked to it. With modern displays, compactness is not such a
> must. And for a more global view, printing is a solution.
>
> Note: for C code, programs like AStyle can help to switch from a format to
> another. Perhaps we should make something similar for POV-Ray. I wish I have
> one when I look at some code :-)

It should also be noted that the ISO C++ standard uses both styles in its
examples.  So if ISO sees no reason to standardize on one, and has neither
found a common agreement (or the need to have one), I don't think there is a
need to have one for POV-Ray anywhere.

That said, my personal preference goes along with the indentation style used
in the POV-Ray core source code (which uses aligned braces), and as all
modern editors support tab width settings and come with reasonable defaults
(i.e. not 8 spaces for one tab), I used tabs ever since (1988)...


    Thorsten

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