From: Ted Zlatanov Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:35:23 GMT Subject: Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment Message-ID: <87ip65guj8.fsf@lifelogs.com> In-Reply-To: On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 19:25:43 +0100 demerphq wrote: d> On 6 February 2013 19:05, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:29:30 -0800 Junio C Hamano wrote: >> 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 :) d> I think you are wrong. Can you provide an example? d> Larry specifically wanted to avoid the "dangling else" problem that C d> suffers from, and made it so that blocks are mandatory. The only d> exception is statement modifiers, which are not only allowed to omit d> the braces but also the parens on the condition. Oh, perhaps I didn't state it correctly. You can avoid braces, but not if you want to use if/elsif/else/unless/etc. which require them: condition && do_this(); condition || do_this(); condition ? do_this() : do_that(); (and others I can't recall right now) But my point was only that it's always possible to get around these artificial restrictions; it's more important to ask for legible sensible code. Sorry if that was unclear! Ted