Parenthesis

[John Demme]

NN wrote:

> What about removing unuseful parenthesis in 'if', 'for', 'while' ?
> E.g. instead of:
> if(a == b)
> {
>   while(c)
>   {
>      ...
>   }
> }
> We can write:
> if a == b
> {
>   while c
>   {
>      ...
>   }
> }
> 
> If someone writes parenthesis the code will compile too.
> So this is almost backwards compatible feature.
> 
> What about 'if' with one expression ?
> Almost everyone writes curly brackets for more than one expression, so
> there they will be always written, and there will be no bugs.


I don't like this idea- parens are a good thing.  There is one paren-related
change I'd like to see, though.  I'd like to be allowed to put a '!' right
before the parens, so I could do
if !(/*some long expression*/)
        foo();
instead of
if (!(/*some long expression*/))
        foo();

The extra set of parens always bothered me.  Does this create any sort of
ambiguity?

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