From kde-commits  Wed Feb 13 19:27:17 2008
From: David Faure <dfaure () kdab ! net>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:27:17 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: KDE/kdepim/kleopatra/commands
Message-Id: <200802132027.19327.dfaure () kdab ! net>
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On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 17:45, David Faure wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > > On Wednesday February 13 2008 16:59, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> > > > Hmm, after this change: if canceled == true, [2] is executed.
> > > > Before the change, [1] was executed.
> > >
> > > Read again :)
> >
> > It's still ambiguous when reading and {} would make it much clearer.
> >
> > "if if else if else" is definitely not clear to the average reader (me
> > included), while explicit "{...}" cannot hurt.
> 
> It is, if you see the indention.

Only if the indentation is correct. I have seen often enough code with indentation
mismatching what the code really does, thus confusing everyone (and introducing bugs).

> And the extra parentheses do hurt, if they're  
> not needed. C++ has enough visual clutter, let's not make it worse by this 
> backwards "always use {}, even if you don't need it, since some stupid 
> maintenance programmer might add a new line and change the meaning of the 
> program" rule.

I might agree with the case of simple one-line "then" clauses, but I definitely disagree
in the case of a very large block of code under the if (due to a nested if).
Actual bugs are worse than a pair of {}.

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