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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: gcc needs a curly bracket matching/counting function |
| Date | 2017-01-02 11:16 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <o4d97c$b2v$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <o3edqe$dg$1@dont-email.me> <ec15ifFofgkU1@mid.individual.net> <kfnd1gby3cq.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> <ecj8esF5ig7U5@mid.individual.net> <kfnh95hu64h.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> |
On 02/01/17 11:07, Tim Rentsch wrote: > Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes: > >> On 12/29/16 01:40 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote: >>> Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> On 12/22/16 06:24 AM, BartC wrote: >>>>> On 21/12/2016 17:04, Keith Thompson wrote: >>>>>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> If you forget the braces, it won't tell you as it knows nothing about >>>>>>> your rule, unless it can't match them. You can also put in extra braces, >>>>>>> and that's OK provided the extra brace is matched elsewhere. >>>>>> >>>>>> So don't do that. >>>>> >>>>> "So don't make mistakes" >>>>> >>>>> Brilliant! >>>> >>>> It's called writing unit tests... >>> >>> Unit tests aren't going to give any help for code that >>> doesn't compile. >> >> But they will if you put a matching brace in the wrong place... > > This sounds like a joke. Anyone whose code is so convoluted that > fixing a brace mismatch has any significant chance of putting a > matching brace in the wrong place has much deeper problems than > just where the brace should go. > I've seen code that bad. Mind you, there were no unit tests to help - it's hard to imagine a combination of disciplined programming with solid unit tests, and the kind of slap-dash programming where someone has added a brace "because the code compiles if I put it there".
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Re: gcc needs a curly bracket matching/counting function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-12-22 18:10 +1300
Re: gcc needs a curly bracket matching/counting function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-12-29 14:50 +1300
Re: gcc needs a curly bracket matching/counting function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-01-02 02:07 -0800
Re: gcc needs a curly bracket matching/counting function David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-01-02 11:16 +0100
Re: gcc needs a curly bracket matching/counting function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-28 16:40 -0800
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