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Never understood that if statement style, it seems to only exist to create subtle bugs.
by Jtarii 6mo ago
Never understood that if statement style, it seems to only exist to create subtle bugs.
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- array_key_first 6mo agoIt's slightly less lines of code which is nice. I'm someone who prefers terseness so I get it. However, it's bad. I much prefer the rare, elusive, postfix if: goto fail if (condition); It can create some very readable code when used right, with short and simple conditionals.
- bch 6mo agoI think of it as BSD style, though of course it could be suggested/mandated elsewhere - [...]Use a space after keywords (if, while, for, return, switch). No braces are used for control statements with zero or only a single statement unless that statement is more than a single line, in which case they are permitted.[0] As I look, GNU guide is less specific, but examples[1] show the same style. The good thing is that -Wmisleading-indentation [2] (comes along with -Wall) catches this indentation error. [0] https://man.openbsd.org/style https://man.openbsd.org/style - happens to be same for at least NetBSD. [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Syntactic-Conventions.html https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Syntactic-Conve... [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html