Re: Indentation style: public/private/protected/case

Kenneth Porter wrote:
:: I'm un-indenting the constructs mentioned in the subject line to
:: align with the enclosing braces:
::
:: switch (expression)
:: {
:: case 1:
:: statement1;
:: case 2;
:: statement2;
:: default:
:: defaultstatement;
:::
::
:: class Class
:: {
:: public:
:: declaration1;
:: private:
:: declaration2;
:: };
::
:: I'm finding myself in an edit war with a coworker. (A result of
:: default editor settings, not a philosophical conflict.) His style
:: is set to indent the colon-terminated keywords, and then indent
:: the controlled statements/declarations an additional level.
::
:: class Class
:: {
:: public:
:: declaration1;
:: private:
:: declaration2;
:: };

I find this particular code harder to read, because there is a two
level distance between declaration2 and the final brace of the class.

That is about the only reason why I personally like your indentation
better. :-)

::
:: I just want to establish consistency so that our change control
:: system doesn't show the whole file changed everytime one of us
:: checks a file in with different indenting.

Can't you have your editors or you version control system save the
files in a common format?

Bo Persson