A defense for bracket-less code

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:20:57 -0400 in comp.lang.python, Don Taylor
<nospamformeSVP at gmail.com> wrote:

>Found in a style guide (http://www.artlogic.com/careers/styleguide.html)
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Another case where "unnecessary" braces should be used is when writing 
>an empty while loop:
>
>while (*p++ = *q++)
>{
>    // this loop intentionally left empty...
>}

FWIW, I usually code this like

   while (*p++ = *q++)
      continue;

>
>instead of the form that is more commonly found:
>
>while (*p++ = *q++);

PC-lint picks this up (as well as the erroneous code in the elided
example), but will allow the "continue" form shown above.

[...]
>loop exactly once. Python programmers can stop chuckling now.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------

On 26 Apr 2006 07:54:38 -0700 in comp.lang.python,
"aurelien.campeas at free.fr" <aurelien.campeas at free.fr> wrote:

>wrong group

Not really.  It was mostly a lead-in to that last sentence.  Problems
like this couldn't happen in Python.  So it's an opportunity to get a
giggle at the expense of programmers using a language that gives you
enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot...

Regards,
                                        -=Dave

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