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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint [but not really printf]
Summary: No more style wars, please
Message-ID: <150@mondo.omni.com>
Date: 16 Jul 89 02:31:24 GMT
References: <328@tree.UUCP> <417@siswat.UUCP> <105@borabora.omni.com> <203@estinc.UUCP>
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Los Altos, CA
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In article <203@estinc.UUCP>, fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
> I can honestly say that I have NEVER been bitten by this sort of bug in
> my own C code, because my style rules dictate that it be written as:
> 	if (condition) {
> 		action;
> 	}
...
> If you are going to leave them out, at least have the decency to
> write it as:
> 	if (condition) action;
> (Sorry about the obvious, but this is my pet peeve #1 about other
>  people's code...)

P L E A S E, let us not begin another round of My C Coding Style Is Better
Than Yours.  How boring.

Remember the origin of this thread of discussion was lint.

I still maintain that lint ought to warn you about "if (e);".


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Bob Weissman
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