[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH] flexelint: punctuation fixes

[Russ Allbery]

Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> writes:

> There is nothing there about semicolon on a one-line for/while, and the
> only option gindent gives you is to put a blank before the semicolon.
> We are not using this option.

> I think it's entirely appropriate to discuss what we want to do about
> this case, and if we can reach agreement, fix the source.  But in the
> absence of agreement we probably should leave the existing code alone.

For whatever it's worth, I'm a big fan of:

    for (...; ...; ...)
        ;

as the way to do those sorts of loops.  The semi-colon on a line by itself
screams "weirdness here" and makes people notice what's going on.

An alternative, if one is afraid of the semicolon getting lost, is:

    for (...; ...; ...)
        continue;

(which is akin to Python's pass).

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>