Actually, I was proposing to leave the ; in to mark the empty
statement (sorry I wasn't clear).This is the simplest way to make PMD
know about the empty statement.
On 6/29/05, Gary Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am +1 on removing the ; and making the style checker behave with
reason.
Ah, miscommunication then. My feeling is that we should not tweak our
code due to a shortcoming in either a tool or our [mis]configuration of
a tool.
2c,
Gary
-Original Message-
From: Steven Caswell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:13 PM
To: Jakarta Commons
Steven Caswell wrote:
Actually, I was proposing to leave the ; in to mark the empty
statement (sorry I wasn't clear).
I'd prefer not to have the ; if possible. It just looks and feels very
odd, esp. when a comment would do logically.
Stephen
My reasoning behind using a semicolon is that this is the defined
statement in the Language Specification for denoting an empty
statement, and something that code checkers/syntax parsers/etc can
easily be told to look for. One syntax, no ambiguity. As opposed to
comments which are not the
Steven Caswell wrote:
Actually, I was proposing to leave the ; in to mark the empty
statement (sorry I wasn't clear).
I'd prefer not to have the ; if possible. It just looks and feels very
odd, esp. when a comment would do logically.
Stephen
+1 from me.
Gary
