From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 18:36:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] CodingGuidelines: call the conditional statement "if ()", not "if()"
Message-ID: <87d2fxz6py.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfvktcqsx.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> - - We try to avoid assignments inside if().
>>> + - We try to avoid assignments inside "if ()" condition.
>>
>> That's not grammatical.
>
> OK,
>
> 	... inside the condition part of an "if ()" statement.
>
> then?

       ... in the condition of an "if" statement

is what I would write.  "if ()" statement is mixing name and shorthand
for the statement.

-- 
David Kastrup