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Yeah I'm aware of that and I don't agree with it. I think it's less readable and the opposite of what developers in most other C-derived languages prefer.

Plus I object to Microsoft dictating how I -or any other 3rd party developer- chooses to format the braces in our own source code. That's my prerogative, not theirs.

Edited 2013-01-16 14:21 UTC

Well it is a matter of taste, so I tend to adopt what the language creators recommend, in this case Microsoft.



Well they firstly aren't, they are a set of suggested guidelines.



While I agree it is personal taste, pretty much all C# books, examples and third party libraries use that bracing style. Also Visual Studio and StyleCop default to type of bracing. It is what other C# programmers expect to see. I don't see any benefit in bucking the trend in the community, but as I said it is personal choice.

As I say, when I am doing Java or JavaScript I use the bracing style that you suggest. Java because it is what Sun recommended and JavaScript because of the issues with Semi-colon insertion.

Edited 2013-01-16 14:43 UTC

I usually put braces on a new line unless the block is one line long.

if (someArg == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("someArg");

The only exception I usually have to this is if its part of a larger if-the-else statement and the other blocks are multiline and have curly braces. Then I think:

if (this == that)
doX();
else if (x == y)
{
// ..
}
else
{
// ..
}

I think the obsession with vertical space is kind of silly in this day and age. I am much more sensitive to code that sprawls horizontally forever.

Besides, I often find new line braces more readable while less compact, whereas the opposite is true for a lack of braces, same line braces, or first brace same line.

At the end of the day though, it is extremely annoying when some full-of-himself programmer ignores the established project coding guidelines. I don't care if a monkey wrote it, if I'm going to be a part of a team, I'm going to follow their rules.

I hear you on that.

In the past I've written code that I've personally hated but it was correct in the context of the wider project.

That said, I have been known to completely rewrite smaller projects before, but those have been extreme circumstances (and there's usually been more wrong than just the use of blocks and braces hehe)

I usually like putting the braces.



Here here, we are having a meeting about coding standards just because there isn't any in our team.

I would like to make sure we use the Microsoft ones for C#, just because they are easily referenced and are well known. Also because we have a lot of juniors, when they look at code samples they are normally using the Microsoft syntax for the most part.