On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:43:54 -0300, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
<adrian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/09/2014 11:35, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
>>    Hi, All.
>>
>>    When was decided that one-line blocks must not be enclosed with
>>    parentheses? It is a
>> rather dangerous style...
>>
> It's not, it was not and it will never be a dangerous style.
> 
> Everything is dangerous if you write code without attention.

Yes, but it makes a hell of a lot easier to get wrong. Remember the goto
fail bug:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

Braces around single statements would have made this bug less likely.

Mark

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