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).