Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C bites / programming style Message-ID: <204@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 17:39:41 EDT Article-I.D.: graffiti.204 Posted: Mon Sep 16 17:39:41 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 06:05:51 EDT References: <1275@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 18 > The curly braces { } have NOTHING to do with the if(). > Code formatting rules that pretend otherwise are misleading. Who's pretending? if(...) shortstatement; if(...) longer statement...; if(...) { lots of statements } It's only line-editor hacks who are hung up on a-line-is-a-statement anyway. (dons asbestos suit for pretection from the wirthians).