Re: [PATCH RFC] Codingstyle: allow omitting braces for all singlestatement branches

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 10:26 +0100, Uwe Kleine-KÃnig wrote:

> -This does not apply if one branch of a conditional statement is a single
> -statement. Use braces in both branches.
> -
> -if (condition) {
> -	do_this();
> -	do_that();
> -} else {
> -	otherwise();
> -}
> +If not all branches of a conditional statement are single statements you might
> +use braces for both branches.
> +
> +	if (condition) {
> +		do_this();
> +		do_that();
> +	} else
> +		otherwise();
> +
> +or
> +
> +	if (condition) {
> +		do_this();
> +		do_that();
> +	} else {
> +		otherwise();
> +	}
>  
>  		3.1:  Spaces

Andrew recently objected to this pattern, and I tend to agree with him
although I might be guilty of a few such cases myself.

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