From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:25:43 GMT
Subject: Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment
Message-ID: <CANgJU+VbkQ+xa+_sSAu-3pMe+6gycHi9J4VR18M5YJt=pa9QUw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87vca5gvx6.fsf@lifelogs.com>

On 6 February 2013 19:05, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:29:30 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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 :)

I think you are wrong. Can you provide an example?

Larry specifically wanted to avoid the "dangling else" problem that C
suffers from, and made it so that blocks are mandatory. The only
exception is statement modifiers, which are not only allowed to omit
the braces but also the parens on the condition.

Yves


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