Re: [libvirt] why we should use a mechanical indentation checker

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On 04/15/2010 02:16 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I introduced a bug with this supposedly-safe, no-semantic-change delta:
> 
>     http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=b6719eab9e95c5daeeea85
> 
> See if you can spot it.
> 
> 
> I am adding something like the following to coreutils' HACKING,
> and will add the equivalent (adjusting indentation/brace-positioning style
> in the examples) to libvirt's hacking.html.in, so if you object,
> speak up soon.

ACK, but...

> +Curly braces: use judiciously
> +=============================
> +Omit the curly braces around an "if", "while", "for" etc. body only when
> +that body occupies a single line.  In every other case we require the braces.
> +This ensures that it is trivially easy to identify a single-*statement* loop:
> +each has only one *line* in its body.
> +
> +For example, do not omit the curly braces even when the body is just a
> +single-line statement but with a preceding comment.
> +
> +Omitting braces with a single-line body is fine:

...make the same tweak on that second paragraph as you do based on my
comments for coreutils
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/20377/focus=20380).

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Eric Blake   eblake@xxxxxxxxxx    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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