Patterns of Bugs

[Iain Buclaw]

== Quote from bearophile (bearophileHUGS at lycos.com)'s article
> Iain Buclaw:
> > On the note of if statements. One pattern of bugs I see on the odd occasion
are
> > else statements written like this:
> >
> > if (condition1)
> >     if (condition2)
> >         statement1;
> >     else
> >         statement2;
> >
> > Always takes a moment or two to look again and realise it wouldn't work as
> > expected without the missing braces added. ;)
> See:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4375

Yep, that's the one. :)

> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4924

I don't see that as a bug, and that enforces a certain coding style onto the end
programmer (does no one give thought/praise to obfuscation anymore? ;)

> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4283

That's certainly a nice looking bug there. But not related in the slightest.


Regards