Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment
From: Ted Zlatanov <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:04
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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- 2016-06-15 · Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment · demerphq <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment · Ted Zlatanov <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment · Ted Zlatanov <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: CodingGuidelines Perl amendment · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:16:21 -0800 Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote: JCH> I'd suggest to just drop that "try to write without braces" entirely. OK, I'll do it on the reroll, or you can just make the change directly. I agree it was not going anywhere :) Ted
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 951d74c..857f4e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines@@ -187,10 +187,6 @@ For Perl 5 programs: - use strict and use warnings are strongly preferred. - - As in C (see above), we avoid using braces unnecessarily (but Perl forces - braces around if/unless/else/foreach blocks, so this is not always possible). - At least make sure braces do not sit on their own line, like with C. - - Don't abuse statement modifiers--they are discouraged. But in general: ... do something ...