Code Blocks (Java and C# Cross Reference Guide)

Curly braces are used to bracket code blocks including classes and the methods within a class.

For Java, JavaScript, PHP, and C++, I prefer to put the first { at the end of the first line of the code block as in the example above because I see moreJava codeformatted that way.

public class Dog {

  public bark() {

    System.out.println("Ruff");

  }

}

C# uses braces {} to indicate a code block of more than one line. For one line of code, the braces are optional.

I prefer to put the opening { and the closing } on their own line only because most of the examples I see do this. As opposed to C++, Java, and JavaScript where I put the opening bracket at the end of the first line (which I actually prefer).

int DoSomething()

{

 int a = 1;

 int b = 2;

 return a + b;

}