Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment

Ted Zlatanov [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:29:30 -0800 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote: 

JCH> Is it ever (as opposed to "not always") possible to omit braces?

Oh yes!  Not that I recommend it, and I'm not even going to touch on
Perl Golf :)

JCH> It sounds as if we encourage the use of statement modifiers, which
JCH> certainly is not what I want to see.

Yup.  I think I captured that in the patch, but please feel free to
revise it after applying or throw it back to me.

I'd suggest to just drop that "try to write without braces" entirely.

JCH> Incidentally, your sentence is a good example of where use of
JCH> statement modifiers is appropriate: $youmust is rarely true.

I was trying to be funny, honestly.  But OK; reworded.

It wasn't a useful guidance, but it _was_ funny.