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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] CODING_STYLE: Forbid nested block in the hypervisor code
Hi,
On 07/04/2017 03:17 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
On 04/07/17 13:20, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 04.07.17 at 14:12, <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
When removing if/for/while statements, the code should be reworked to
remove the { } and the extra indentation.
Yes.
This is improving code maintainability and code readability.
For the given example, yes. However, there are (rare) cases where
having such nested blocks actually improves readability, for example
in certain combinations with preprocessor conditionals. Hence I don't
think we should forbid them.
There are also a few specific cases where it is useful to use blocks
like that to introduce a new variable, where introducing it at function
level scope isn't appropriate. (Alternatively, we could switch from C89
to C99, but that is a separate discussion).
I agree that we should discourage the use of blocks like this, but not
forbid them outright.
Thank you both for the feedback. I will rework the proposal to
discourage contributor rather than forbid.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
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