[saurik]

You are thinking of "goto fail", a bug in Apple's Security framework. I would not claim that was "caused" by a lack of braces: even having the braces, that bug--in addition to a wide class of similar bugs--is still quite possible, even if in a few models of how the bug was caused it becomes slightly less likely. The best place to lay blame for that kind of error is a stubborn insistence that error handling should involve boilerplate return value checks strewn throughout the code, with no attempt at abstraction or structure: it leads to numerous potential mistakes. Please read the various discussions attached to this article that made this claim:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318039

[dhimes]

Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks for the link. The discussion I was recalling is here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282005

but the thread is a lot heftier now.