Re: The world's evilest code formatting style

The final revelation which made me stop was that the style does not
support inline blocks, which in turn means it doesn't support the
important guideline

   * in C++, declare variables close to their first usage, and limit
     their scopes as much as practically possible.

E.g., the code

   for( int i = 0; i < 100; ++i )
   {
       std::cout << "whatever\n";
       {
           double const x = f( i );
           // Do things with x
       }
       {
           double const y = f( i );
           // Do things with y
       }
   }

becomes less than readable with the indented braces style,

   for( int i = 0; i < 100; ++i )
       {
       std::cout << "whatever\n";
           {
           double const x = f( i );
           // Do things with x
           }
           {
           double const y = f( i );
           // Do things with y
           }
       }

Not that this kind of thing occurs very often in practice, but it's the
principle.