i wholeheartedly agree with this style. Not only is it consistent as the PSR intends, it's readable and makes code-folding in IDEs much cleaner.
i want my team to comply with code standards, but right now PSR, Symfony, and Zend are the only "standards" supported by most PHP IDEs. i would love to implement this formatting as the rule, but inspection tools like PHPCS don't recognize this formatting.
i've contended for a long time that the rules in PSR-2 & -12 are inconsistent, which hurts readability 100% of the time. And it's not just a "personal feeling" about style and readability. Different structures call for different usages of operators, control characters, etc. That's the definition of inconsistency. When i programmed in C# many years back, Visual Studio pushed really hard on the Allman-8 style described above. It was jarring at first because i was coming from lazy PHP-land, but i got used to it and started to understand why it worked so well.
The fact that PSR-2 was based on survey results and what was "most common" at the time in my mind makes it a horrible standard. There's no rationale, no explanation why one context should be different from another... It's just "we always did it this way, so we're always going to do it this way.
Yes, bikeshedding the style isn't an appealing path to take. But the PSR does exactly that by requiring particular uses of braces, line formatting, spacing, etc. It seems to me the rules shouldn't be rigid about one set of rules, but allow for variants. You can keep the legacy formatting if you want, but allow for alternative rule sets, as long as the structures are built the same way, and the rules within a given project are consistent... If one project wants to use PSR-2's original style, cool. If you want Allman-8, awesome. Both styles work, and it shouldn't matter which one is used as long as it gives continuity to the project.
i realize this line of discussion is confrontational, but this is an important aspect of community programming, and when a limited set of people/projects get to determine the course for everyone else, it really should be fully open to discussion and persuasion. PSR-12 isn't likely to take any radical changes in its proposed formatting rules, but i contend that it isn't incompatible with allowing alternate style rules. i really hope that some of this discussion makes it to the working team, because right now PSR-12 is little more than a perpetuation of lazy & inconsistent practices to avoid pushing old projects and developers to sharpen up their code style.
-jlt