Re: C coding convention

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Joel M. Pareja wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I just would like to hear ideas about a convention that my boss is
> insisting on being implemented which I personally disagree.
>
> Putting opening/closing brackets for case statements:
>
>   switch (type)
>   {
>     case 1:
> =>  {
>       /* do something */
>       break;
> =>  }
>
>     ....
>
>     default:
>     {
>       /* do something */
>       break;
>     }
>   }
>

it's a bad idea since it just wastes screen space -- chewing up an
entire line for a single brace.  bad boss.  no biscuit.

rday