Can't you configure every IDE to notice if the if statement is not within braces?
(you can also configure emacs and vim to notice) I find that if your coder can't even notice when his conditional or loop is greater than 2 lines and thus requires braces, then that coder isn't any good. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/21/11 10:36 AM, Alec Taylor wrote: >> >> Pfft, I much prefer (for readability) the non-brace version where >> possible. >> >> Lets set our own standard, rather than follow someone elses. >> >> Actually, this project is incubator. Do apache require a certain standard? > > > At Apache we need to follow the "Apache way", but that is mostly about > project management, legal requirements and other things. > > Apache leaves all project related decisions to the project team. > Therefore we are free to decide which code conventions we want to > follow, or even if we want to follow some. > > Back to the if with or without braces. In the current code base it is mixed. > The argument not to use the if without braces is that they are more error > prone, > because you can accidentally believe that a statement is inside the if which > is not. > > Jörn
