More on braces, I am squarely in the Allman camp for the reasons described here:

http://www.experimentgarden.com/2009/07/facts-behind-code-in...

It is amazing the old-style K&R still persists. I think there was one more reason it was preferred in the early days which is not mentioned in the aforesaid link: storage space which was also expensive. The K&R style saves a new-line char which would be a significant saving in large codebases.