On 2025-12-02 Tu 6:31 PM, Chao Li wrote:
On Dec 3, 2025, at 07:13, Tom Lane<[email protected]> wrote:
Chao Li<[email protected]> writes:
On Dec 3, 2025, at 06:51, Tom Lane<[email protected]> wrote:
In this case, I think pgindent is indirectly enforcing good style.
I do not like omitting braces around anything that's more than one
line; readers have to pay close attention to whether the code is
doing what it was intended to.
For “one line”, do you mean only a single line of statement or one line
statement plus one line comment?
In my head, a comment and a statement are two lines, and so need
wrapping braces as much as two statements would do. I realize that
C compilers think differently, but for readability and modifiability
reasons that's the approach I take.
Totally agreed. In my first job at Lucent Technologies, the coding standard was
that braces should always be added even if a clause has only one line of code.
I remember one of the explanations was like, if braces has been added, then
later when a new line of code is added to the clause, there is only one line of
diff, otherwise braces need to be added, so it would be 3 lines of diffs.
+1. One of the things I find particularly un-aesthetic is having some
branches of an if statement with braces and some without. We have lots
of cases of that, but I try to avoid it.
cheers
andrew
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