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

On 29/09/2024 16:41, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:

On 09/28/24 10:47 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
efer?

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Er... The answer to his question is already present in the quoted
portion of my post.  "The vertical spacing introduced..."

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Does that mean you think this
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     if (failed) {
       ...
     } else {
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       ...
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     }
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is just as readable?  Or is it something besides the
vertical spacing that bears on your "more readable"
judgment?

 No, the spacing in question is the spacing between the `if` condition and the first line of the the first compound statement.
 This is unreadable and unacceptable
 

I hope you are aware that that is, at best, a personal opinion?  Given that a great many C programmers write code that way and find it both readable and acceptable - indeed preferable to your own style - your claim is obviously factually incorrect.
If you can provide evidence in the form of studies or statistical data that demonstrate that your style is significantly easier to read for many people, or leads to fewer errors in code, then I think many people here would be interested in that.  But as it stands, your post is as useful as telling us that the best flavour of ice-cream is obviously strawberry and that chocolate ice-cream is inedible.

This readability problem exists one the other end with struct declarations and `do{}while` syntax as well
  I don't have a perfect solution for this variation of the same issue. So, I tend to use
    typedef struct MyStruct
   {
     int a;
     double b;
     char c;
    } MyStruct;
    do
   {
     whatever1;
     whatever2;
    } while (condition);
 although admittedly this has its own drawbacks.
 

Note that the "one true brace" style has no problem here and is consistent in these cases.  Consistency is not necessarily of overriding importance, but it often helps readability.