On 3 January 2012 09:55, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Tim Delaney wrote: > > I'd also point out that if you're expecting braces, not having them can > make the code less readable. > > > If a programmer's mind explodes when they look at the simple and beautiful > examples in K&R's The C Programming Language, then they've got problems > that can't be solved by braces ;-) > Now that's just hyperbole ;) If you've got a mix of braces and non-braces in a chunk of code, it's very easy for the mind to skip over the non-brace blocks as not being blocks. I know it's not something I'm likely to mess up when reading the code in-depth, but if I'm skimming over trying to understand the gist of the code or looking for what should be an obvious bug, a block that's not brace-delimited is more likely to be missed than one that is (when amongst other blocks that are). If we had the option of "just use indentation" in C I'd advocate that. Failing that, I find that consistent usage of braces is preferable. Cheers, Tim Delaney
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