Re: style change: explicitly permit braces for single statements

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2020-07-13 17:52, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >     if (ch == t.c_cc[VINTR]) {
> >         ...do INTR processing...
> >     } else {
> >         if (ch == t.c_cc[VQUIT]) {
> >             ...do QUIT processing...
> >         } else {
> >             if (ch == t.c_cc[VKILL]) {
> >                 ...do KILL processing...
> >             } else {
> >                 ...etc
> >             }
> >         }
> >     }
>
> For this, I would prefer
>
>      if (ch == t.c_cc[VINTR]) {
>          ...do INTR processing...
>      } else if (ch == t.c_cc[VQUIT]) {
>          ...do QUIT processing...
>      } else if (ch == t.c_cc[VKILL]) {
>          ...do KILL processing...
>      } else {
>          ...etc
>      }

I would agree. That is a more readable way, I think.

> In this case, perhaps even a switch might better, assuming that all of 
> the t_c.cc[] are unique:
>
>      switch (ch) {
>      case t.c_cc[VINTR]) {
>          ...do INTR processing...
>          break;
>      };
>      case t.c_cc[VQUIT]) {
>          ...do QUIT processing...
>          break;
>      }
>      case t.c_cc[VKILL]) {
>          ...do KILL processing...
>          break;
>      }
>      ...etc

In which language would this be? It's not C at least... Syntax is 
slightly broken, but case values in C must be integer constant 
expression... But I agree it would be nice if C would allow more 
flexible options for the case values...

  Johnny

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