[Jeremy Fitzhardinge - Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:52:25AM -0700]
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
>> On 20/06/07, Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> This trivial patch adds braces over a one-line
>>> loop. That makes code...well... little bit
>>> convenient for (possible) further modifications.
>>>
>> That's generally not done.
>>
>> It's even in Documentation/CodingStyle :
>>
>> "
>> Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.
>>
>> if (condition)
>> action();
>> "
>
> I tend to see "do {} while()" as an exception to this. I find the
> construct is sufficiently rare that it helps to emphasize it a bit. For
> example if I'm scanning code and I see:
>
> while (foo != NULL);
>
> in the corner of my eye, I'm going to think "huh?". But:
>
> } while (foo != NULL);
>
> visually "parses" properly, regardless of how near or far the corresponding
> "do {" is.
>
> (And of course, its consistent with the super extra special while-while
> loop:
>
> while (foo != NULL) {
> foo = bar();
> piffle();
> } while (foo != NULL); // make sure we loop properly
>
> ;)
>
> J
>
Btw, Jeremy, could you please Ack it then and I'll resend the patch to Andrew ;)
Cyrill
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