[ja30278]

I never understand the desire to omit braces in single line blocks.

sure

   for ()
       foo

saves you a line, but it's a bug waiting to happen.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Are there not examples where a statement is pretty much guaranteed to live on its own within a block? Having said that, my own style is to always include braces, for aesthetic reasons if nothing else.

[ams6110]

When I omit braces I also omit the indented line. I would write:

    for () foo;

Makes it clear it's ONE statement. At least for me...

[netheril96]

This makes debugging much harder.

[lmm]

A function or class that doesn't fit on a single screen is a bug waiting to happen.

[DrJokepu]

People keep saying that, but do bugs like that really happen? In my entire career as a professional software developer I've never seen it happening. Not once.

[hobo_mark]

Oh yes it does.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

[DrJokepu]

Fair enough. That being said, -Wunreachable-code would have caught that.

[coolsunglasses]

>Fair enough. That being said, -Wunreachable-code would have caught that.

-Wunreachable-code was disabled in gcc years ago.

[DrJokepu]

Yes, but I would assume that Apple uses clang internally?

[Arnt]

Apple's goto/fail bug could only exist because single-line then clauses work.