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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/23
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In article <38DA2F9C.BAFF8C60@cadence.com>,
  Paul Graham <pgraham@cadence.com> wrote:
>  For instance, the problem of maintaining an if statement in C
> if there is no brace:
>
>     if (condition)
>         stmt1;
>         stmt2;

>
> Here the maintainer thinks he's adding stmt2 to the
then-clause of the
> if statement. The Ada if syntax prevents this from happening.

Sure, but in a C environment the above code should be ruled
out by the coding rules for indentation, which should most
certainly be checked by a tool (note that EMACS will do this
checking by automatically identing the above code as

>     if (condition)
>         stmt1;
>     stmt2;

which will help avoid this.

I consider careful choice and enforcement of stylistic coding
rules to be an essential element in high quality software
engineering.


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