Re: svn commit: r14478 - in trunk/subversion: tests/libsvn_subr

(The code at issue follows; Peter asked that the for loop body be put in
braces.)

+ for(j = 0; path[j]; ++j)
+ if (path[j] == ':' || path[j] == '/')
+ break;

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:00, Philip Martin wrote:
> Really? I wasn't aware we had such a convention. I don't think the
> code in question needs braces, if some convention "requires" that they
> be added then I think the convention should be changed. Stupid rules
> don't help.

I don't think it's consistent with our code base to have multi-line (but
single-statement) for loop bodies without braces. Every rule of style
can seem like a "stupid rule" to someone who either isn't used to it or
temperamentally doesn't benefit from it, but consistency is more
important than making every developer happy. (And yes, in retrospect I
think we should have been consistent about space-before-paren for
function calls across the entire source code base, even if I'm one of
the dissenters on that front.)

That said, I don't think there's any specific rule about this in HACKING
or in the GNU C standards.

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