On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 01:58:41 -0800 (PST)
> From: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Blackbox Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Offtopic: C Coding Practice (was: Re: blackbox-0.62.1-custom
>
> On 03-Mar-2002 Jim Knoble wrote:
> > [Followups should probably go to either news:comp.lang.c or to me
> >  personally.]
> >
> > Circa 2002-Mar-02 23:35:26 -0800 dixit Marc Wilson:
> >
> >: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:58:56AM -0500, Jim Knoble wrote:
> >: > The indentation is misleading.  If you *really* don't want to use
> >: > brackets around a single statement, i recommend this style:
> >:
> >: Well, yeah.  But you shouldn't be using the brackets to cover up the poor
> >: coding practices (lousy indenting).
> >
> > The use of brackets here:
> >
> >   if (blah) {
> >      haha();
> >   } else {
> >      heehee();
> >   }
> >
>
> And everything you say covers exactly why I love programming in python -- when
> i read code I immediately see the coder's intent.
>
> But we are straying sufficiently off topic now (-:
>

Perhaps we should try Lisp :-)

David

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