On Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 22:56:00 UTC, F i L wrote:
monarch_dodra wrote:
Personally, EVEN when I'm doing a 1 line if, I *still* wrap it
in a block. EG:
if(a == 0)
a = 1;
or
if(a == 0) a = 1;
Becomes:
if(a == 0)
{a = 1;}
or
if(a == 0) {a = 1;}
It might look iffy at first, but very quickly feels natural.
It may look like it requires (god forbid) "useless" typing,
but when that 1 liner becomes a 2 liner, it saves your life.
It has saved mine more than once actually!
I've done the dangling if bug often. One day I said
"no-more!". I've addopted the above format, and it has not
happened to me since.
Further more, thanks to D's ban on "if();", you can litterally
never fail with this format. I warmly recommend it to every
one.
This is exactly why I think the '{}' brackets "should" be a
requirement and not the '()' brackets:
if a == b { doSomething(); }
if a == b
{ doSomething(); }
if a == b
{
doSomething();
doSomethingElse();
}
I know this will never happen in D, but it's how it should be,
IMO.
I was thinking about this along with optional semi-colons. I
wonder if it could be done as an editor add-on so you can write D
like that and then have the plug-in convert it to D that the
compiler would accept.
