in reply to Re: No braces
in thread No braces

then someone will-undoubtedly screw up like this: 

if (x>3)
   foo()
   bar()

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That point was *really* driven home in one of the first C++ programming classes I ever took at school. The professor made a big thing of making sure we *always* used braces even though you didn't have to. I can still picture him waving his hands at the front of the classroom "down the road, someone will want to add something and will forget to add braces. Tears of frustration will ensue because you can't figure out why the code broke."

Good advice methinks.

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Re: Re: Re: No braces
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Feb 11, 2004 at 19:28 UTC

    And no doubt one of the many reasons Larry chose to bypass the errors and use blocks everywhere but in modifiers, but made the modifiers look suitably different by putting the conditional after the statement that nobody would fall prey to this mistake.


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