[Python-Dev] PEP 7 clarification request: braces (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 09:31:00 CET 2012

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ron Adam <ron3200 at gmail.com> wrote:

The problem is only when an additional statement is added to the last block, not the preceding ones, as the compiler will complain about those.  So I don't know how the 4 line example without braces is any worse than a 2 line if without braces.

Even when the compiler picks it up, it's still a wasted edit-compile cycle. More importantly though, this approach makes the rules too complicated. "Always use braces" is simple and easy, and the only cost is the extra line of vertical whitespace for the closing brace.

(I personally don't like even the exception made for single clause if statements, but that's already too prevalent in the code base to do anything about. Hence the 4-line example in my original post.)

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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