Re: relief -- beauty and symmetry

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From: Tim Wilkinson (tim@transvirtual.com)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 23:52:32 EST

Well, while I agree with the first one (it's an artifact of the class editor
Peter and Joerg use), I *love* the hanging else - can't stand those ones on the
same line. I also hate it when the brackets are missing on an if even when
there's only one statement (its much clearer to have them).

But I don't care that much ....

Godmar Back wrote:

> >
> >
> > It's some relief for me to see that this formatting wasn't really intended:
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > public boolean booleanValue()
> > {
> > return (value);
> > }
> >
>
> But, it still perplexes me that some people do not see the beauty
> of symmetry in an if/else construction:
>
> if (x) {
>
> } else { // Look at this line, it has all the symmetry of the world in it!
>
> }
>
> How could you not see how beautifully the else links the else block to
> the corresponding if? Just the '} else {' part is reminiscent of a
> monkey wrench that screws the two parts together.
>
> Whereas here:
>
> if (x) {
>
> } // now everybody think this the if's over.
> else { // so what is that? A dangling else?
>
> } 

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