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[Python-Dev] Update PEP 7 to require curly braces in C

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 07:09:23 EST 2016 
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> On 01/18/2016 03:57 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> Rather than forcing people to use braces, wouldn't it be easier to
> just add a linter to the toolchain that will detect those kinds of
> problems and reject the commit?
>
>
> I don't understand your suggestion.  If we automatically reject commits that
> lack this style of braces, then surely we are "forcing people to use
> [them]"?

Only in the exact situation that this is trying to prevent, where
indentation implies something that braces don't stipulate. From the
original Apple bug link:

if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
    goto fail;
    goto fail;

Since there are two indented lines after the if and no braces, this
should be flagged as an error. If there's only one indented line,
braces are optional.

ChrisA
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