Block and Statement Style Guidelines

As mentioned previously, the “emulating block boundaries” style works well for most block-structured languages.

• Use more parentheses than you think you’ll need. I especially use parentheses around all my arithmetic expressions – mostly just to make sure I haven’t screwed up the precedence rules.
  fx = ((a + b) * (c + d)) / e;
• Format single statement blocks consistently. Using the emulating block-boundaries technique:
  if (average > MIN_AVG) {
     avg = MIN_AVG;
}
• For complicated conditional expressions, put separate conditions on separate lines.
  if ((’0’ <= inChar && inChar <= ’9’) ||
     (’a’ <= inChar && inChar <= ’z’) ||
     (’A’ <= inChar && inChar <= ’Z’)) {
          mytext.addString(inChar);
          mytext.length++;
}