Thus we got many different formatting styles. Finally, it's much easier to visually align braces when they are aligned in the same column. I've learned to scan both forms, and in the end it comes down to what you've grown comfortable with. The approach I use removes all the exceptions and special cases, and logically produces a single style of indentation, as well. The consistency alone, I feel, makes it worthy of consideration.
Small problems multiplied by many lines of code become big problems.
The other constraint I must work under is the line width, since the book has a limitation of 50 characters. Corp. All Rights Reserved.