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The consistent treatment of blocks as statements (for the purpose of indentation) is a very distinctive feature of the GNU C code formatting style; as is the mandatory space before parentheses. All code formatted in the GNU style has the property that each closing brace, bracket or parenthesis appears ''to the right'' of its corresponding opening delimiter, or in the same column.

As a general principle, [[GNU Emacs]] can be considered{{by whom}} a reliable authority on the GNU code formatting style. As such, it is desirable{{according to whom}} that any piece of code that looks ugly<!---Opinion?---> when indented by Emacs is changed into a more Emacs-friendly form—for example, by inserting additional parentheses.

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