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GeneralRe: when algorithms attack Pin
honey the codewitch16-Aug-19 5:31
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Sander Rossel16-Aug-19 5:37
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Jon McKee16-Aug-19 9:27
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honey the codewitch16-Aug-19 9:32
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honey the codewitch16-Aug-19 9:34
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Sander Rossel16-Aug-19 9:52
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Jon McKee16-Aug-19 10:29
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Sander Rossel16-Aug-19 10:52
professionalSander Rossel16-Aug-19 10:52 
Jon McKee wrote:
on the flip-side you can accidentally add code inside a brace that isn't meant to be looped (albeit probably less common)
Much less common, so much more preferred in my opinion Smile | :)
People do make mistakes with braces, but usually only when it's deeply nested with many many braces, which isn't something you should have anyway.
Jon McKee wrote:
braces vs no braces is exactly a specification of what the code should or should not be doing on a static basis
Only as you said, should do one thing vs. should do x things, but that's something that changes with specs, and both can be easily changed.
The difference is that when the specs are changed to "if x do y and now also z" the code with braces is almost certain to be changed correctly, but without braces that change is more likely to cause a bug.
It's not even entirely true, because if that one statement is a function call it could still be doing a gazillion things in that function Smile | :)

Another example of how it could cause a bug is the following:
C#
if (x)
//   DoSomething(); Commented out for now.
AlwaysDoThis();
And what about this?
C#
if (x)
   if (y)
      DoSomething();
   else
      DoSomethingElse();
Is that an else for x or y?

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Jon McKee17-Aug-19 10:19
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Sander Rossel16-Aug-19 10:59
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Sander Rossel17-Aug-19 4:32
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