gEDA-dev: [PATCH] gschem: Visual feedback for keyboard commands

Bob Paddock bob.paddock at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 19:17:39 EDT 2007


On Friday 01 June 2007 14:50, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> if (...) {
>   single_statement;
> }
> 
> to:
> 
> if (...)
>   single_statement;
> 
> Please, please, please don't go out of your way to make such changes.
> I have discovered (through lots of pain maintaining other people's
> code) that those brackets improve code clarity and help convey
> programmer intent.  Yes, it is a stylistic choice/nit/whatever,

To support your position MISRA-2004, Rule 14.9:

"An if(expression) construct shall be followed by a compound statement...
even a single statement must be in braces..."  There is an exception
for if/else if/ trees, there must be a final else{}.

MISRA - The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association
http://www.misra.org.uk/

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