Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: proscribe do-while without braces.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jul 26 2007 - 20:36:11 EST


On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:18:34 +0200 Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Josh Triplett <josht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > +This also does not apply to a do-while loop; always use braces with a do-while,
> > +even if it contains a single statement:
>
> I can't see anything wrong with
>
> do
> abc;
> while (xyz);
>

Me either, but whatever.

> and even if I could, "always use" seems way too strong in this case.

it's better that we all do things the same way. What that way _is_ is
actually less important, unless it's something stupid, of course.

In this case, most of the code I've seen uses the braces (I think).

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