Preferred curly brace placement and why.

Borg

I prefer method one. Mostly because I consider two to be a waste of real estate on my screen. If my methods are so long that I can't see the alignments well, that tells me that I'm probably overcoding it.

I've been on projects where the code gets auto-formatted to method two when it's checked into the code repository. I would much rather see the people that implement that nonsense to focus on putting in proper error handling or commenting their code.

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cobalt124

Always Method 2. I find it much easier to read, though the extra line count is annoying.