Have you changed your coding style recently? It wasn't hard wasn't it?
- by Ernelli
I've used to write code in C-like languages using the Allman style, regarding the position of braces.
void foo(int bar)
{
if(bar)
{
//...
}
else
return;
//...
}
Now the last two years I have been working mostly in JavaScript and when we adopted jslint as part of our QA process, I had to adopt to the Crockford way of doing things. So I had to change the coding style into:
function foo(bar) {
if (bar) {
//...
} else {
return;
}
//...
}
Now apart from comparing a C/C++ example with JavaScript, I must say that my JavaScript-Crockford-coding style now has spread into my C/C++/Java coding when I revise old projects and work on code in those languages that for example has no problem with single line statements or ambiguous newline insertion.
I used to consider the later format very awkward, I have never had any problems with adapting my coding style to the one chosen by my predecessors, except for when I was a Junior developer mostly being the solve developer on legacy projects and the first thing I did was to change the indenting style.
But now after a couple of months I consider the Allman style a little bit too spacious and feel more comfortable with the K&R-like style.
Have you changed your coding style during your career?
