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David Scheidt ... snipped stuff with silly non-standard quote marks ...

Just to use your example, there are several things that can be done to improve legibility. First, don't overdo the indentation - I find 3 spaces is always adequate. Second, arrange the conditionals so that the else clause is the lengthy one. That makes it easy to follow the indentation up and find out what is really controlling end of that portion.

if (foo) { if (bar) { if (baz) { if (quox) { -stuff } else if (quoxx) { -stuff } } else if (bazz) { -stuff } } }

I also always give '}' a line for itself, except for the } while of a do-while loop. This differentiates it completely from the while clause of a while loop.

I have taken the above example and converted some of the tests to while and do-while loops as an example:

while (foo) { do { if (baz) { if (quox) { -stuff } else if (quoxx) { -stuff } } else if (bazz) { -stuff } } while (bar); }

Luckily indent can automate all this, at least for C.

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