On 07/25/2011 10:55 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
It's already allowed by the example; there are about 1800 instances in the
tree; and disallowing it would lead to
if (a) {
...
} else {
if (b) {
...
} else {
if (c) {
...
} else {
if (d) {
...
} else {
...
}
}
}
}
instead of
if (a) {
...
} else if (b) {
...
} else if (c) {
...
} else if (d) {
...
} else {
...
}
which is more readable.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity<a...@redhat.com>
Applied. Thanks.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
---
CODING_STYLE | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index 5ecfa22..6e61c49 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ keyword. Example:
printf("a was something else entirely.\n");
}
+Note that 'else if' is considered a single statement; otherwise a long if/
+else if/else if/.../else sequence would need an indent for every else
+statement.
+
An exception is the opening brace for a function; for reasons of tradition
and clarity it comes on a line by itself:
