Jesper Juhl wrote:
On 20/06/07, Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> wrote:
This trivial patch adds braces over a one-line
loop. That makes code...well... little bit
convenient for (possible) further modifications.
That's generally not done.
It's even in Documentation/CodingStyle :
"
Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.
if (condition)
action();
"
I tend to see "do {} while()" as an exception to this. I find the
construct is sufficiently rare that it helps to emphasize it a bit. For
example if I'm scanning code and I see:
while (foo != NULL);
in the corner of my eye, I'm going to think "huh?". But:
} while (foo != NULL);
visually "parses" properly, regardless of how near or far the
corresponding "do {" is.
(And of course, its consistent with the super extra special while-while
loop:
while (foo != NULL) {
foo = bar();
piffle();
} while (foo != NULL); // make sure we loop properly
;)
J
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