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Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements



I've decided not to pursue this any further.

No objections if anyone else wants to take up the cause.

On 20-07-17 23:20, Alistair Crooks wrote:
  | 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.
  | > --
  | > Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl
  | > ___  Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on
  | > \X/  no account be allowed to do the job.       --Douglas Adams, "THGTTG"
  | >


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