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All of these are bearable except for Haskell style. Wtf is that😭

I want a language that takes this and has a specification for the editor to prettify it

while x==y
     func1
     func2

This is the way

Allman is objective the correct choice

Allman is a benign neurosis

Allman is the only other one that has some sanity.

On a serious note tho, I never understood the benefits of GNU's spaces after functions. I don't really mind most of the rest but I just don't get the benefits of 'funcname (arg)' vs. 'funcname(arg)'. Is there a specific reason for this? Personally, I find this to reduce readability because I have to think for a split second whether I'm looking at a variable or a function call.

Of cause this is also due to my habits, but I'm curious as to what the reasoning is.

If you have ADHD, your coding style is a combination of all of these, and sometimes none of the above.

The eternal holy wars rage on

Allmans what I learnt then went to K&R on my own because it made more sense to me. I think GNU is fine I guess, not the others though. Not that what I say matters I've forgotten how to code and can barely do Hello World these days.

And who can forget this abomination

while (x == y) { func1(); func2(); }

Some of those made me physically ill.

Like. You do WHAT with your whitespace?!

Crockford gang approves.

Noone writes Haskell like that. People generate Haskell like that because layout syntax is a fickle beast to generate and outputting braces means you can make mistakes in layout without breaking things, the way the braces and semicolons are output emphasise how they actually don't matter, they're also easy to delete in a text editor.

Also it matches up with other Haskellisms, e.g. lists:

let foo = [ bar
          , baz
          , quux
          ]

See how it's immediately apparent that you didn't miss a single comma? It's also trivial to match up opening and closing brackets like that, even in deeply nested situations.

Not doing that is actually my main pet peeve with Rust's standard formatting.

Allman looks fine to me. But I'm a C# dev so maybe I'm just used to it.

oh so you hate Richard stallman?

Allman works best if you like folding code blocks.