[wp-hackers] Coding style (if : endif vs if {})

[Matt Mullenweg]

Rich Bowen wrote:

> First, the disclaimer: I DO NOT want to create an issue where there is
> none. I don't want to start a holy war. I have personal preferences, but
> intend to adhere to whatever the local convention is. I'm much more
> intested in making my patches easy to apply than in espousing a
> particular style.

I've found the if : endif; style is much clearer and easier to understand 
for people who may not have previous coding experience, and for people 
that do have previous coding experience it takes just a second to figure 
out what's going on. For very long blocks of code, I think it's handy, but 
I'm not about to rewrite every conditional in WP code. However the 
user-facing code (like index.php) should be using this where possible. The 
main downside to this style is it breaks "brace matching" in the editors I 
use, but then again you don't need brace matching as much because things 
are clearer. :)

It is a good syntax to keep in mind if you're doing code that people who 
aren't PHP savvy will be editing.

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