[sigzero]

I hate that formatting style personally.

[pentagone]

> First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

- The doc on Linux kernel coding style

[junon]

Me too. I've never understood it. I just went back through the clang-format documentation and looked at some of the examples for the GNU style and was reminded at how utterly unreadable the resulting code is.

[enriquto]

The rationale for this style seems to be to make it appealing to Lisp programmers, which will find it familiar.

I also dislike it for C (as much as I appreciate GNU's contribution). As we all know, K&R is the one true style.

[morelisp]

Nah, "utterly unreadable" is the right description.

[junon]

I've not written a lot of lisp (I understand it, just never had a need for it personally) so perhaps I'm ignorant, but I don't see how it's at all similar to Lisp. It just looks different for the sake of being different.

[wirrbel]

I never worked in a codebase that was formatted in this style and surely its weird and not at all what I am used to. But I somehow from looking at the examples find it to be somewhat pleasant. Doesn't mean I would pick it as my standard but I can see how one could.

I do prefer putting opening braces at the line end in all situations though (but that also rules out a lot of other styles).