Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Just to get back to the original subject - fully support {} around single
statements - have been doing that in my own code for ages.

Would be great to have that codified (ha!)

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 12:01, Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu 16 Jul 2020 at 13:08:49 -0400, Ted Lemon wrote:
> > It sounds like we need a better tool.  FWIW, when actually working on
> > code, I've found that 120 is a better width than 80 -- with 80, there are
> > just too many line breaks.  But I don't mean to say that your
> > preference is wrong -- what sucks is that we have to compromise, instead
> > of having tools that present the text the way that we want to consume
> > it without changing anything in the underlying file. E.g. web browsers
> > just reflow the text when you change the window width. Why don't we
> > have this for code editors?
>
> I have seen an editor (I think it was google's Android development
> environment) that even went so far as to recognize some particular
> boilerplate Java code fragments, and abbreviated them. You could unfold
> them if you wanted though.
>
> I wasn't sure if I liked that or hated it.
>
> -Olaf.
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