for in D versus C and C++

Rioshin an'Harthen rharth75 at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 20 03:05:30 PDT 2009


"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> kirjoitti viestissä 
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> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> That was less than a week ago. I'd say that this type of bugs will live 
>> as long as C++ lives.
>
> The thing is, even if the programmer *intended* to put the ; there, it 
> looks like a bug to the maintenance programmer, and he has to spend extra 
> effort determining if it was intended or not.
>
> I doubt anyone types { } by accident.

I have a habit of indenting the semicolon on the following line, if I wanted 
a blank statement, like

for (...; ...; ...)
    ;

Much clearer in my opinion than having it on the same line as the for 
construct. 




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