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[olemars]

Makes it a lot easier to find your block when debugging, as opposed to.

statement;
statement;
statement;
if (condition) statement;
statement;

I usually do it this way:

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statement;
statement;
statement;
if (condition)
    statement;
else
    statement;
statement;


[Siquo]

As personal preference, even with one line blocks inside an if statment, I still use {}

Yeah, I do this, too, but I put the opening bracket on the same line as the opening clause/statement/thingy:

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if(true) {
  statement;
}To each his own, and everyone thinks his way is best. As long as it's readable, you're fine. Oh, and try to use the "code" tags, it makes it more readable here on the forums

[Max White]

(condition){
   statment;
}

makes me rage to work with, and I will always change it to my way. Propper bow formatting makes it faster to read when your going in and out of code blocks. Although yea, this is some what of a subjective subject.

Unless your working in python. 

[Siquo]

Unless your working in python. 

But nobody does that and I just saw that there's another thread for that discussion

[Nadaka]

Max White: in javascript, using the brace on the same line is not just a format option, failure to do so can cause some messy errors because it may occasionally produce a valid grammar that parses in a way that you don't expect.

[MaximumZero]

Okay, so I ran into another snag whilst trying to clean up that mess of code I made.

"expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ';' token "

What does that even mean?

[Siquo]

A syntax error Could be anything.

[MaximumZero]

Well, crap.

[qwertyuiopas]

If it gives a line number, look there. Also, see if your editor has a "go to line" command, so you don't have to look for it.

[MaximumZero]

The only thing from that line until the end of the program is :

getchar();getchar();
return 0;
}

Which I have been doing successfully since the beginning of the class. WTF?

Nevermind, I fixed it. I had the curly brace in the wrong spot. Anyway, now that it compiles again, is there any way for me to speed up compiles?

[qwertyuiopas]

Hmm, while in that case, it's something further up in the program, perhaps (and I don't know enough C++ to do more than take a random guess) what it is interpreting as a function or something, so when it sees the semicolon at the end, it is confused?

[olemars]

Nevermind, I fixed it. I had the curly brace in the wrong spot. Anyway, now that it compiles again, is there any way for me to speed up compiles?

With a single sourcefile program like this, no there is not. Shouldn't be taking more than a few seconds even on an old, arthritic computer in any case.

What compiler and editor/IDE are you using?

[MaximumZero]

Bloodshed C++

I have a feeling that I should be compiling like a boss, considering my computer, but it's just. so. slow. Took almost a minute and a half to compile this.

[Nadaka]

Wow. even my half million line java project at work only takes a couple minutes to actually compile if you don't count run the xdoclet crap. Bloodshed C++ should allow you to select a different compiler if you want to swap it out, but I wouldn't know what to recommend for compile time, GCC?

[MaximumZero]

I wonder if there's a compiler that will actually utilize my 6 core processor...