Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment

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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>

Date

Feb 6, 2013, 18:27 UTC

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On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:16:21 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: 

JCH> I'd suggest to just drop that "try to write without braces" entirely.

OK, I'll do it on the reroll, or you can just make the change directly.

I agree it was not going anywhere :)

Ted

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 951d74c..857f4e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -187,10 +187,6 @@ For Perl 5 programs:
 
  - use strict and use warnings are strongly preferred.
 
- - As in C (see above), we avoid using braces unnecessarily (but Perl forces
-   braces around if/unless/else/foreach blocks, so this is not always possible).
-   At least make sure braces do not sit on their own line, like with C.
-
  - Don't abuse statement modifiers--they are discouraged.  But in general:
 
        ... do something ...