allowing braces around suites

Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Sat Aug 28 12:42:16 EDT 2004


Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:

> indeed, C or C++ is no better in this respect, quite the opposite IMO.
> Paul McGuire illustrated the corresponding problem in C:
> 
>     db->update_name(person);
> 
>     if (is_student(person))
>         log("update student %s", person->name);
>         db->update_courses(person);
>     db->commit();

Sorry, I meant "C or C++, even with consistent use of braces", implying 
that using braces IMO in general doesn't help spotting this kind of bugs.

-- 
"Codito ergo sum"
Roel Schroeven



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