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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

In the absence of an established corporate coding standard, when editing an existing file, you should always adapt the style already used in the file.

if (a == b)
   {
   c();
   }

if (a == b)
   {
   c();
   }

if (a == b) {
    c();
}

if (a == b)
{
    c();
}

if (true) {
  DoThis();
}

If True Then
  DoThis()
End If

Vark111 wrote:

Javascript - Style 2. To the point that if I see javascript written in Style 1, I don't even recognize it as valid javascript.

//I want to do stuff 10 times
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    DoStuff()<br />
}

//I want to do stuff 10 times
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++);  //Javascript engines thoughts:  Do nothing loop.  This makes no sense unless the programer is an idiot, but he wrote javascript so that's a reasonable assumption.
{
    DoStuff(); //Javascript engines thoughts:  not part of a loop body, will execute only once
}

Dan Neely wrote:

The javascript engine's semicolon injector behaves in ways that make it clear it doesn't regard opening braces on the next line as valid js either.