Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces

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Sujet : Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces
De : david.brown (at) *nospam* hesbynett.no (David Brown)
Groupes : comp.lang.c
Date : 24. Sep 2024, 16:24:32
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On 24/09/2024 16:52, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
On 09/24/24 7:36 AM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
My long-standing habit is to write this
>
    if(x)  bar(x);
>
or this
>
    if(x){
       bar(x);
    }
>
but never this
>
    if(x)
       bar(x);
>
The reason for this habit is that many years ago I got bitten by
trying to add a line in the last case.  The habit subsequently
adopted has proven very effective at eliminating such errors.
>
 It is just weird.
 This is no different from insisting in using "Yoda conditions", claiming that "many years ago I was bitten by an accidental = in place of ==". In reality we all know that regardless of how many scary stories someone might tell about dangers of accidental assignment in place of comparison, it just does not happen. There's no such issue. People just don't make this mistake.
They do.
You might not do so, but other people do.  Not often, but still too often.
(I don't think Yoda conditions are the answer here - automatic checking from tools is simple enough.)

 The same applies to
    if(x)
     bar(x);
 This is the right thing to do. It is the most readable and elegant way to write a simple `if`. And the dreaded "one day you will add a line and suffer" just doesn't happen. There's no such issue. People just don't make this mistake.
 
Again, people do.
I gave you a link earlier to a hugely costly example of this mistake, made by very experienced C programmers.
But I am confident that Tim, and others (like me) who use a similar style, are almost entirely immune to this particular mistake.
Now, if there were a good way to automatically detect mixups between & and &&, | and ||, then we'd be rid of a number of these kinds of errors in C coding.

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21 Sep 24 * how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces61Mark Summerfield
21 Sep 24 +- Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces1Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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21 Sep 24 i`* Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces49Andrey Tarasevich
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22 Sep 24 i i`* Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces4Andrey Tarasevich
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29 Sep 24 i   `* Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces9Tim Rentsch
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