Which is the more popular format for braces and what is your preference?

[EscSequenceAlpha]

I was tought to line my braces up like so

public class Animal 
{
	public void noise()
	{
		System.out.println("I want some tea");
	}
}

but I see this form is common, although I find it more difficult to read

public class Animal_61 {

	public void noise(){
		System.out.println("Animals dont make noise");
	}
}

I want to ask those with experience what they think is more common and what tone is likely to find in industry

[KevinWorkman]

It's really up to you. I doubt anybody is going to begrudge you this, especially because IDEs can auto-indent however you want.

But the standard code conventions go with the second way: Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language: 7. Statements
"The opening brace should be at the end of the line that begins the compound statement; the closing brace should begin a line and be indented to the beginning of the compound statement."

I would do whatever you're most comfortable with, and if you don't have a preference, go with the standard style. And both of those (your preference and the standard conventions) can be overruled if you work at a place that micromanages you to the point of specifying where brackets should go.

[Tolls]

Industry will have a code format style embedded into its IDE, which will "correct" whatever formatting "mistakes" you might make.
At least that's been the case at the last 4 places I've been at.

[quad64bit]

I by far prefer the second form you provided, and don't personally know anyone other than students early into their programming courses who use the former. I don't mean that as an insult to anyone, as it really is preference, but in practice, the first form adds a ton of whitespace. When your programs get large and deep, all the whitespace can make it really difficult to figure out what level of nesting you're in.

This is also a matter of preference, but anything other than [comments or formatting for cleanliness] that adds a lot of in-line whitespace can make the logic difficult to follow.

The second form looked alien to me at first (as I learned the first way) but I decided to try it for a week, and never looked back.

Consistent and clean code is more important than anything else though, so regardless of your style, as long as you stick to it, it will give you the best result.

[EscSequenceAlpha]

Thanks guys, the reason I asked this is because I find it difficult to read code the second way, I wonder if IDEs can converted between the two? for example if I was a programmer could I auto format it my way, do my job, then when I'm done autoformat back?

actually, I bet with more experience looking at code it probably wont matter.

[JosAH]

Thanks guys, the reason I asked this is because I find it difficult to read code the second way, I wonder if IDEs can converted between the two? for example if I was a programmer could I auto format it my way, do my job, then when I'm done autoformat back?

actually, I bet with more experience looking at code it probably wont matter.

Eclipse (I don't know anything about Netbeans) can format your code (almost) any way you want.

kind regards,

Jos

[KevinWorkman]

Thanks guys, the reason I asked this is because I find it difficult to read code the second way, I wonder if IDEs can converted between the two? for example if I was a programmer could I auto format it my way, do my job, then when I'm done autoformat back?

Yep. Seems like a lot of extra work though.

actually, I bet with more experience looking at code it probably wont matter.

Yep.