Silly brackets (Was: Re: Problems extending Python with C.)

[François Pinard]

sk at nvg.unit.no (Steinar Knutsen) writes:

> The problem described below was caused by my misplacing a bracket in
> the C-part of the code.  As my Python-trained brain only looked at the
> indentation, the error was easily missed. Remind me to flame the next
> guy who claims indentation is brittle and brackets are robust. :)

I believed, for years, that C compilers should have an option to emit
warning diagnostics when indentation is not consistent with brackets.
It is a big waste, in my opinion, that compilers ignore all that redundancy,
while it could be used to better help programmers.

P.S. - Copy sent to bug-gcc, in hope someone in there will agree :-).
I tried to convince Richard a few times in the past years, and suggested
various heuristics, but I probably did not succeed at raising his interest.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard