John's answer below quite exactly reflects my own opinion about this.
Best,
Oliver
On 03.03.22 09:59, jcup...@gmail.com wrote:
gcc at least (clang too I think) will warn for misleading indentation,
so I think forcing braces probably won't add much extra safety.
Braces for single lines adds
gcc at least (clang too I think) will warn for misleading indentation,
so I think forcing braces probably won't add much extra safety.
Braces for single lines adds extra visual noise and reduces the code
you can see at a glance, so some people argue there's actually a small
downside to using
It forces to add a pair of {} to all if/for/while/etc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/1091
(it fails in Qt autogenerated files for now, i can fix that if we agree we want
it)
I can see it being potentially annoying when CI fails because of this but on
the other
