[Python-Dev] Update PEP 7 to require curly braces in C

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 at 10:45 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 1/20/2016 12:45 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 at 19:33 Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com
> > <mailto:vadmium%2Bpy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 19 January 2016 at 20:12, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org
> >     <mailto:brett at python.org>> wrote:
> >      > Here is a proposed update:
> >      >
> >      > diff -r 633f51d10a67 pep-0007.txt
> >      > --- a/pep-0007.txt Mon Jan 18 10:52:57 2016 -0800
> >      > +++ b/pep-0007.txt Tue Jan 19 12:11:44 2016 -0800
> >      > @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@
> >      >        }
> >      >
> >      >  * Code structure: one space between keywords like ``if``,
> >     ``for`` and
> >      > -  the following left paren; no spaces inside the paren; braces
> >     may be
> >      > -  omitted where C permits but when present, they should be
> formatted
> >      > -  as shown::
> >      > +  the following left paren; no spaces inside the paren; braces
> are
> >      > +  strongly preferred but may be omitted where C permits, and they
> >      > +  should be formatted as shown::
> >      >
> >      >        if (mro != NULL) {
> >      >            ...
> >
> >     This change seems to be accidentally smuggled in, in the guise of a
> >     PEP 512 update :)
> >
> >
> > Darn, sorry about that; forgot I had that change sitting in my peps
> > checkout. I'll revert it when I get home (unless the change is actually
> > acceptable to Guido).
>
> I thought that the above was your intentional compromise change given
> the range of opinions ;-).
>

It is, but Guido is the author of PEP 7 and so I didn't want to check in
the change without his approval first.
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