Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
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> On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:29:30 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> JCH> Is it ever (as opposed to "not always") possible to omit braces?
>
> Oh yes! Not that I recommend it, and I'm not even going to touch on
> Perl Golf :)
>
> JCH> It sounds as if we encourage the use of statement modifiers, which
> JCH> certainly is not what I want to see.
>
> Yup. I think I captured that in the patch, but please feel free to
> revise it after applying or throw it back to me.
I'd suggest to just drop that "try to write without braces" entirely.
> JCH> Incidentally, your sentence is a good example of where use of
> JCH> statement modifiers is appropriate: $youmust is rarely true.
>
> I was trying to be funny, honestly. But OK; reworded.
It wasn't a useful guidance, but it _was_ funny.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>