[libvirt] [PATCH 02/15] Remove unneeded curly brackets around oneline code blocks in src/conf/

[Laine Stump]

On 11/07/2014 05:09 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 05:38 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>
>> @@ -138,9 +138,9 @@ virDevicePCIAddressEqual(virDevicePCIAddress *addr1,
>>      if (addr1->domain == addr2->domain &&
>>          addr1->bus == addr2->bus &&
>>          addr1->slot == addr2->slot &&
>> -        addr1->function == addr2->function) {
>> +        addr1->function == addr2->function)
>>          return true;
>> -    }
> Conversions like this are a little harder to read (that is, any time the
> 'if' condition extends over multiple lines, but there is exactly four
> space indentation of the condition, it's visually hard to see where the
> multi-line condition ends and the loop body begins).  The opening { is
> hard to see either way, but seeing the closing } is my visual clue that
> "yes, the last line of this blob of code is not part of the 'if' but the
> one-line body".  I'm not opposed to your removal of {}, but wonder if we
> should rethink our style to recommend keeping the {} if the 'if'
> expression is multiline.

I've always thought this, and used to do it that way until a few
reviewers complained. So I for one would welcome our new "use braces if
condition is multiple lines" overlords :-)

(I also agree that this is all an exercise in futility unless there is a
matching syntax-check rule to enforce it.)