Comment by eru

3 years ago

The compiler doesn't check your indentation at all. (OK, not true, these days you get warnings for misleading indentation.) But here's an example of misleading indentation in C:

    if(some condition)
        do something; {
        do something else;
    }
    do another thing;

You can stretch 'some condition' out over multiple lines and have some more parents inside of it, to make it more confusing.

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eru

worik 3 years ago

I see.

Yes

I class that as a bug in the original C specification

eru 3 years ago
But you either make visual indentation significant, or you risk having a discrepancy between visual indentation and what the language sees.
- worik 3 years ago
  
  > But you either make visual indentation significant...
  That would be Python. I do not like it, which does not mean it is bad, it is a matter of taste
  The alternative is you say "blocks are delimited by {}"
  `if(foo) bar` should be invalid
  `if(foo){bar}` is OK by me. Worik's tick of approval
  (Neither is valid C I think)
  
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