On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:29:30 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: JCH> Is it ever (as opposed to "not always") possible to omit braces? Oh yes! Not that I recommend it, and I'm not even going to touch on Perl Golf :) JCH> It sounds as if we encourage the use of statement modifiers, which JCH> certainly is not what I want to see. Yup. I think I captured that in the patch, but please feel free to revise it after applying or throw it back to me. JCH> You probably would want to mention that opening braces for JCH> "if/else/elsif" do not sit on their own line, and closing braces for JCH> them will be followed the next "else/elseif" on the same line JCH> instead, but that is part of "most of the C guidelines above apply" JCH> so it may be redundant. OK; done. >> - Don't abuse statement modifiers (unless $youmust). JCH> It does not make a useful guidance to leave $youmust part JCH> unspecified. JCH> Incidentally, your sentence is a good example of where use of JCH> statement modifiers is appropriate: $youmust is rarely true. I was trying to be funny, honestly. But OK; reworded. Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html