Another salvo in the indentation war? I hope not.

[Michael Hudson]

m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) writes:

> If you feed this:
> 
> if (1 == 1) {
>   printf("This won't work.\n");
> }
> 
> To C you'll get compiler errors as well if somebody removes all the '}'s. :)

Only if you forget to delete the '{'.

But if you feed

if (test) {
   printf("a");
   printf("a");
}

to a C compiler before and after deleting all the { and }'s you get
different behaviour, which IMHO is worse.

Cheers,
Michael

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