[Python-Dev] Update PEP 7 to require curly braces in C

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 18.01.2016 08:00, Victor Stinner wrote:
> I like if without braces when the body is only one line, especially when
> there is no else block.

Same here.

Compilers warn about these things today, so I don't think
we need to go paranoid ;-)

> Victor
> 
> 
> Le dimanche 17 janvier 2016, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> a écrit :
> 
>> While doing a review of http://bugs.python.org/review/26129/ I asked to
>> have curly braces put around all `if` statement bodies. Serhiy pointed out
>> that PEP 7 says curly braces are optional:
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/#id5. I would like to change
>> that.
>>
>> My argument is to require them to prevent bugs like the one Apple made
>> with OpenSSL about two years ago:
>> https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html. Skipping the
>> curly braces is purely an aesthetic thing while leaving them out can lead
>> to actual bugs.
>>
>> Anyone object if I update PEP 7 to remove the optionality of curly braces
>> in PEP 7?


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