[Python-Dev] Update PEP 7 to require curly braces in C (original) (raw)

Alexander Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Mon Jan 18 23:40:30 EST 2016

On 1/18/2016 23:27, Greg Ewing wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote:

For me, I don't see how::

if (x != 10) return NULL; dosomemore(); is any clearer or more readable than:: if (x != 10) { return NULL; } dosomemore(); Maybe not for that piece of code on its own, but the version with braces takes up one more line. Put a few of those together, and you can't fit as much code on the screen. If it makes the difference between being able to see e.g. the whole of a loop at once vs. having to scroll up and down, it could make the code as a whole harder to read. When someone trying to make this argument in #python for Python code... the response is newlines are free. Almost this entire thread has me confused - the arguments against are kind of hypocritical; You are developing a language with a built in design ethic, and ignoring those ethics while building the implementation itself.

Newlines are free, use them

Explicit > Implicit - Explicitly scope everything.

I am not a core developer, but I just kind of feel its hypocritical to oppose always using brackets for the development of python

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