C bites / programming style

[Peter da Silva]

> 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).