Braceless if considered harmful
Monday, January 16th, 2006
There are some things I’m reluctant to write about because everything that needs to be said about them has long since been said. This post falls into that category. Peter van der Linden explained what I’m about to say in Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets years before Java was released, and I have nothing to add to what he wrote. Nonetheless very few C or Java programmers got his message so it’s worth saying again, and repeating until the community finally learns.
Always use braces on multiline if statements
