Now this is embarassing

[Brisingr Aerowing]

Oops! That had to hurt.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking

[Gary Wheeler]

Fortunately it's in some logging code that only field service cares about.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Brisingr Aerowing]

Phew. If that had been anywhere else, you would have had a major problem there.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking

[NormDroid]

missing else? Don't you just love scoping braces.

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[AspDotNetDev]

Norm .net wrote:

Don't you just love scoping braces

You also dig chicks with braces?

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

[Manfred Rudolf Bihy]

Nothing against them except perchance in, humm, let's say orally challenging situations. ;P

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

[enhzflep]

What a catch!

Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut

[Shao Voon Wong]

Add this comment before anyone notice your code!

// This embarrassing code is definitely not written by Gary Wheeler!
if (_Uptime != null)
{
_Uptime.Remove(TraCommon.Tokens.TraService_Speed);
}
{
_Uptime = new Service.Message();
_Uptime.Code = SysCommon.CommandCode.SysUptimeEvt;
}

:laugh:

[BobJanova]

Sadly, SVN will tell you that it really is ;(

[V 0]

Don't be too embarassed. It's quite normal[^]

V.
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[User 7894920]

At the risk of starting a slashdot-style flame war I refuse to code an if without:

if (condition) {
consequence;
} else {
negative consequence;
}

Can't help it. Can't change it. 56 years old and too old to recover from it. But also pretty hard to miss an 'else'. Please don't hate me...

[Gary Wheeler]

Part of my problem is that, due to changes in style guidelines in my group over time, I have a body of older code that uses K&R braces. My newer stuff, including the aforementioned C#, uses the brace-per-line style.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Fabio Franco]

Gary Wheeler wrote:

It's been there for years.

Then it has been working for years too! Don't fix it!

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[KP Lee]

Gary Wheeler wrote:

Mine was a sin of omission, while his was a sin of emission.

Someone mentioned in the other link that an empty statement shouldn't be allowed after an if statement. I think both should be allowed, but have warning messages. His would be "The conditional statement won't execute anything", yours "Extra brackets added for no apparent reason". Both may be a stretch for the compiler to see. On the other hand, people who like padded coding might not like that.

[KP Lee]

Thought I said "The conditional (if-else) statement won't execute anything" but I used the special characters (@lt; @or; >) that hid it and didn't look at my preview. Great, only gt works as substitution letters.

[User 3138470]

This reminds me why i hate ppl who write code like if (x != y) doThis(); remember one time when somebody added some code --> if (x != y) doThis(); alsoDoThat(); Took a while in debugger to figure out what was reason :-p Cause not part of my code :-) I always write my code after that if (x != y) { doThis(); } Even if have to do only one thing :-p

[Adriaan Davel]

I did this once in c++, took very long to figure out:

if (condition);
{

}

____________________________________________________________ Be brave little warrior, be VERY brave

[Michael Kingsford Gray]

Would have been obvious in VB.NET.

[AspDotNetDev]

Every line of code in VB.Net is obviously a mistake. ;P

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

[greldak]

I'd be more concerned if there was something between the braces to get unexpectedly executed irrespective of the intended condition.