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    Ron Anders
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    Too late, already pressed F5, Someday I or someone will get a mild chuckle.

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      Too late, already pressed F5, Someday I or someone will get a mild chuckle.

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      Single Step Debugger
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      Better than a semicolon at the end of an "if" statement. :sigh: took me a half day to realize why my coworker's code is not working.

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        Better than a semicolon at the end of an "if" statement. :sigh: took me a half day to realize why my coworker's code is not working.

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        Ron Anders
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        Yeah, I've done that more times than I care to admit. :-D

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          Better than a semicolon at the end of an "if" statement. :sigh: took me a half day to realize why my coworker's code is not working.

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          Pete OHanlon
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          Their cod wasn't working? That sounds fishy to me.

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            Better than a semicolon at the end of an "if" statement. :sigh: took me a half day to realize why my coworker's code is not working.

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            honey the codewitch
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            For some reason - maybe it's my editor? - but lately I've been dropping a lot of { open braces after if (K&R style for me in C/C++) and it rains absolute mayhem down on my source code. My editor lights up like a $5 {expletive, use your imagination}, and of course nothing compiles. It's also just the sort of thing your brain will fill in for you automatically if it's not there while scanning code. Thanks brain!

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              For some reason - maybe it's my editor? - but lately I've been dropping a lot of { open braces after if (K&R style for me in C/C++) and it rains absolute mayhem down on my source code. My editor lights up like a $5 {expletive, use your imagination}, and of course nothing compiles. It's also just the sort of thing your brain will fill in for you automatically if it's not there while scanning code. Thanks brain!

              To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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              Single Step Debugger
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              Yeah, with K&R your brain will register the harmful semicolon. But I for instance always use Allman style with any language.

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                Their cod wasn't working? That sounds fishy to me.

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                Single Step Debugger
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                Edit: got it (the fishy part) :) Here, let me clear the picture:

                if(obj->nVar > 0);
                {
                //unreachable code
                //more unreachable code
                //even more unreachable code
                }

                It was verry confusing because it was CLI manageable section and without a special pragma you cannot debug this code.

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                • S Single Step Debugger

                  Yeah, with K&R your brain will register the harmful semicolon. But I for instance always use Allman style with any language.

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                  Mircea Neacsu
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                  Single Step Debugger wrote:

                  always use Allman style with any language.

                  If you can: GO forces you to use K&R style. Allman is a syntax error :wtf:

                  Mircea

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                    Better than a semicolon at the end of an "if" statement. :sigh: took me a half day to realize why my coworker's code is not working.

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                    Beware of coworkers with a malfunctioning cod piece!

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                      Beware of coworkers with a malfunctioning cod piece!

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                      Mind bleach, I need mind bleach!!! X|

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                        Their cod wasn't working? That sounds fishy to me.

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                        DrWalter PE
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                        Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                        heir cod wasn't working? That sounds fishy to me.

                        Beware of people with a non functional cod piece.

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                          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                          heir cod wasn't working? That sounds fishy to me.

                          Beware of people with a non functional cod piece.

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                          Mind bleach, I need mind bleach!!! X|

                          "the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

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                            For some reason - maybe it's my editor? - but lately I've been dropping a lot of { open braces after if (K&R style for me in C/C++) and it rains absolute mayhem down on my source code. My editor lights up like a $5 {expletive, use your imagination}, and of course nothing compiles. It's also just the sort of thing your brain will fill in for you automatically if it's not there while scanning code. Thanks brain!

                            To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                            I always use braces, even when not required. It future proofs for later maintenance. There was a great article supporting the always use braces approach, but I can’t remember the exact format used. The article had extensive test cases around merging changes from multiple branches and showed how braces protected correct merging. I have tried googling it, but with no luck. I guess I could just Chat GPT to provide the answer now? And if I do not like the answer then I will ask Chat GPT to write a white paper proving that my preferred brace style is superior and force my team to adopt it.

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                              I always use braces, even when not required. It future proofs for later maintenance. There was a great article supporting the always use braces approach, but I can’t remember the exact format used. The article had extensive test cases around merging changes from multiple branches and showed how braces protected correct merging. I have tried googling it, but with no luck. I guess I could just Chat GPT to provide the answer now? And if I do not like the answer then I will ask Chat GPT to write a white paper proving that my preferred brace style is superior and force my team to adopt it.

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                              honey the codewitch
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                              I *was* using braces. I'm talking about typing:

                              if(foo!=nullptr)
                              printf("foo valid\n");
                              }

                              Like that.

                              To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                                I *was* using braces. I'm talking about typing:

                                if(foo!=nullptr)
                                printf("foo valid\n");
                                }

                                Like that.

                                To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                                At least it is a syntax error. That is a scenario where you can ask the editor to re-format for you and then compare with pre-format to see what shifted/indented unexpectedly. Like you said, the indentation will trick you into not noticing the missing {. The one that bit me was if () // do foo foo(); and I added prefoo(); ahead of foo(); without adding braces. “It was a setup, I tell you, wiseguy”

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                                  At least it is a syntax error. That is a scenario where you can ask the editor to re-format for you and then compare with pre-format to see what shifted/indented unexpectedly. Like you said, the indentation will trick you into not noticing the missing {. The one that bit me was if () // do foo foo(); and I added prefoo(); ahead of foo(); without adding braces. “It was a setup, I tell you, wiseguy”

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                                  Wizard of Sleeves
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                                  This is why I *always* use braces after an if is there is only one line of code ...

                                  if(expression == true) {
                                  doSomething();
                                  }

                                  Then later when reviewing my code, I decide to tidy it up because it looks nicer ...

                                  if(expression == true) doSomething();

                                  Third time around I add one line of code and spend the rest of the day trying to figure out why nothing works.

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                                    At least it is a syntax error. That is a scenario where you can ask the editor to re-format for you and then compare with pre-format to see what shifted/indented unexpectedly. Like you said, the indentation will trick you into not noticing the missing {. The one that bit me was if () // do foo foo(); and I added prefoo(); ahead of foo(); without adding braces. “It was a setup, I tell you, wiseguy”

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                                    honey the codewitch
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                                    Yeah, that's not a fun bug. Fortunately for me, the number of times that has happened to me I can count on one hand.

                                    To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                                      I *was* using braces. I'm talking about typing:

                                      if(foo!=nullptr)
                                      printf("foo valid\n");
                                      }

                                      Like that.

                                      To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                                      JohnDG52
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                                      That closing curly kicks my OCD right where it hurts.

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                                        Too late, already pressed F5, Someday I or someone will get a mild chuckle.

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                                        WPerkins
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                                        I found myself (in the old days) putting periods at the end of COBOL comments... but that was OK.

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                                        • S Single Step Debugger

                                          Better than a semicolon at the end of an "if" statement. :sigh: took me a half day to realize why my coworker's code is not working.

                                          Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                                          Peter Adam
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                                          That is a perfectly valid SAS code[^]. I still don't believe in it when I see it.

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