On 02/09/2014 12:00, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> 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

Happened one time in the history.

> Braces around single statements would have made this bug less likely.
>
>
You consider the people who write:

goto fail;
goto fail;

Was with a good mind to write code? Was really the braces the problem?


Adriano



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