Layout convention: statements on separate lines

The Java compiler actually ignores new-line characters except when they occur inside the double quotation marks of a string. So it is possible to write multiple statements, or even a whole program, all on a single line. Consider the following program, which the JDK happily compiles and runs with no complaints:

class Style{public static void main(String args[]){System.out.println("it takes all kinds");}}

The same program written again, following the layout conventions suggested in this unit is as follows:

class Style
{
  public static void main( String args[] )
  {
    System.out.println( "it takes all kinds" );
  }
}

Hopefully you will agree that for humans, the use of layout and naming conventions can make Java code much more easy to read, and therefore understand and debug.
 

Exercise 4 ?Layout