A brace vs. indentation hypothesis (was Re: Braces are not Compiler-Fluff.)

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to bph at buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton):
>       "Hint:  keep those braces as close
>        to their related syntactic element
>        as possible, or yer FIRED!.  Well, not
>        fired, per se, but I'll leave coding the
>        bitmaps for you to do..."

IMHO, this:

	if (condition && test) {
	    action();
	}

puts about 2 inches between "if" and "{", whereas this:

	if (condition)
	{
	}

makes the "if" and "{" adjacent.

I see two dimensions when I look at a program.  Apparently, not everyone
does.
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