I wrote a while back about how indenting trailing lines of code to match some semantic element of the line above was bad and wrong - it's inconsistent and hard to maintain, not to mention hard to get right initially and generally makes code harder to read unless you have a very wide screen. Continue reading...
I'd like to blog about a point of code indentation. I have a strong and unusual opinion on this topic, that the way that most people do it is ... less than best.
I suspect that about half of the readers will not want to read further, since they already know the right way to indent code (the way that they do it already, whatever that may be) and the other half won't want to read further, for fear of getting involved in the religious wars, lest the nits that I pick infest them too. But anyway, though de gustibus non est disputandum (that's Latin for there's no accounting for taste), consider the following as an option.