You are a stupid programmer, you can't have that

[Daniel N]

On Monday, 9 August 2021 at 18:00:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 	if (someCondition)
> 		doSomething();
> 	else
> 		doSomethingElse();
> 		return 1;	// <--- bugfix
> 	finishUp();
>
> Had braces been required, the `return 1;` would have been 
> introduced in the proper scope and there would have been no 
> problem. But now this fix has introduced a new bug.
>
>
> T

The above code will fail to compile in recent C/C++ compilers, 
because of suspected intentional backdoors hiding in plain sight 
using this technique.

<source>:7:5: warning: this 'else' clause does not guard... 
[-Wmisleading-indentation]
<source>:9:9: note: ...this statement, but the latter is 
misleadingly indented as if it were

Thus there's no longer a good reason to avoid this style, unless 
you are using a compiler where this is not yet implemented.