On 14 December 2013 04:53, David Nadlinger <code@klickverbot.at> wrote:

On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 17:30:09 UTC, Manu wrote:

I take druntime and phobos as they are the largest and most widely used
body of D code, along with many other projects I've run into that also
follow that lead. I'm yet to encounter any exceptions.

If you ever used the Derelict-style bindings for Assimp I threw together (and which are hopelessly out of date at this point), which I remember you mentioning quite some while ago, that's not true. ;)

I prefer this style and use it for all my personal projects, as I feel it makes inferring the structure glancing over the code a bit easier for me. Though, honestly, it doesn't really matter to me at this point. I just want to point out that I would hardly consider it to be a Java-only thing. The style is not only used in the K&R book, but also in many well-known C/C++ projects such as LLVM, and IIRC is also called for in Google's internal C++ style guide.

Fair enough. I concede.

The reason I raise the issue is that I like the sense of agreement within Java. I'd like to think there's opportunity to promote a prevailing standard in D the same as in Java (especially in code presented for public scrutiny). The argument simply doesn't come up when writing Java code, and I like that everyone agrees that way.

I don't care which, I just like consistency. And it seemed to me that the largest body of D code as maintained by the official community should probably define such a standard, but clearly that boat has long sailed, so I guess it doesn't matter.