Okay, more C (or just generally curly-braces-style-languages) discourse: I am a strong believer in aggressively using braces everywhere.
Very occasionally I will emit them on single-line if/for/while statements, but even that makes me feel uncomfortable.
I've seen far too many bugs resulting from not being aggressive about block delimiter usage over the years.
Bonus is it tends to mean diffs adding/removing single lines of code are cleaner.
Toy systems language choice: braces are *required*.
Brian Swetland
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2026-04-09 22:39:23 UTC
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