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To: Stanislav Grozev <sgrozev@orbitel.bg>
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Subject: Re: silly C style question 
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    from Stanislav Grozev at "Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:28:23 +0200"
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:44:03 +1000
From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>
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On Tuesday, 23rd January 2001, Stanislav Grozev wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:23:35PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote:
>> Use neither of these!  Use:
>>
>> if (i == 0)
>>     {
>>     foo(i);
>>     bar(i);
>>     }
>>
>> You Know It Makes Sense(tm).
>
>please elaborate how your solution makes sense? because I am obviously dumb,
>as I can't seem to recognize the reasoning behind it.;-))

The structure is:

    if (expression)
	statement;

statement consists of two statements foo(i) and bar(i) in this case.

So, it becomes:

    if (expression)
	compound-statement

The compound-statement must be surrounded with brackets to make it work.
I line them up with the statements within the compound-statement
because the brackets are part of the compound-statement.  (Old Pascal
thinking showing through, but it still works in C).

Yields:

    if (expression)
	{
	statement1;
	statement2;
	}

Completely logical!

Stephen.


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