Initializing an array of structures

[Thomas Weller 0]

peterchen wrote:

I especially love the brackets he put around the loop bodies

Well, this can be a coding guideline. It may look a bit silly and pedantic to put brackets around a single statement, because it makes you write things like:

if (somecondition)
{
return;
}

Tools like e.g. ReSharper (for C#) do that automatically, so you don't have to type. I've seen this often in larger teams, and it brings some more readability to the code. I do it myself... Or, as you suggest, it's simply an absence of any thinking or understanding. Who knows ? :cool: Regards Thomas

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[peterchen]

Thomas Weller wrote:

Well, this can be a coding guideline.

Excactly - even though I don't subscribe to it, it is a common guideline to avoid a mistake like this:

for (int i = 0; i < 15; ++i)
anArray[i].field1 = 1;
someotherarray[i].somefield = 2;

It's just a strange idea, but someone, in the future, MIGHT come up with maybe another array to be assigned a different value. :rolleyes:

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[peterchen]

That would go

// Set field to 1:
anArray
[
// index
0
].
// field name
field1

// value
1;

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