PHP: control structure syntax ( ':;'s / '{}'s )

Which do you use, and why?

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Edit: personally I use the braces, mainly because I started programming in Java and they work. I have been thinking I should change, but couldn't think of a good reason why.

 

Traditional Brackets just on account of I get a better feel of just what is in process, but that is just me.

 

Braces, cos I do more C++

 

If it's just a small loop, braces. If it's a hauuuge loop, if: endif; - seems more logical imho.

 

more logical? how? (just curious, not disagreeing)

 

Almost exclusively braces. I've got a little system worked out for getting things lined up just right in my editor, and it makes it ten times easier to keep track of what ends where. I rarely even have { quick thing; } on one line like that, just because it's nonstandard and tends to throw me off a bit.

 

Always braces, I like to have things consistent throughout

 

Braces pretty much always, would probably get confused with endif; etc. so I just stick to what I understand.

 

I can understand ajack's pov. If I've got very large if statements, or several nested statements, then just lots of end braces:

Code:

			}
		}
	}
}

Can be confusing. If you have this, however:

Code:

			endif;
		endif;
	endwhile;
endif;

It's immediately easier to quickly identify what's closing what without the need for comments.


Having said that I exclusively use curly braces. I did use colon syntax for short perioud of time, as much as anything just to pee off my colleague, but then when I found out I was going to have to write something to pillage and profile our code I didn;t want to have to write something that handled colon notation.

 

'tis a good point, though the comments I generally leave at a closing bracket (if it's a long way from the opening) also state what the loop (/if) was for.
But I guess it'd be better than brackets if minimal / no comments are left.

 

But it doesn't tell you which if statement your closing.

This is what shift+5 is for in vim.

 

So long as you indent properly then it should be obvious what your closing - just a matter off following the bracket vertically!