Timeline for Single statement if block - braces or no?
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| Nov 29, 2013 at 9:19 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2011 at 7:02 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by user36294 | ||
| Nov 5, 2010 at 14:18 | comment | added | Nobody | Am I the only one who is'nt really interested in whether there is braces or not? I just use whatever VS puts there. | |
| Nov 4, 2010 at 13:41 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @shimonyk: I wrote that and since you’ve read it you already know what I’m going to answer here: I don’t have to provide evidence to disprove your claim, that’s not how empirism works. You have to provide corroborating evidence. | |
| Nov 4, 2010 at 13:31 | comment | added | shimonyk | @Konrad very well, please cite your sources also. I assume you have a peer reviewed double-blind study that you are referencing? If not, than merely flouting your own anecdotes in an attempt to prove others wrong while demanding other poster refer to 'evidence' is hypocritical at best. As someone further down on this very topic wrote "the onus here is on the opposition to prove their claim, not on me to disprove it". | |
| Nov 4, 2010 at 13:17 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @shimonyk: so basically your observations support my assertion that this problem is inconsequential? By the way, personal observations are anecdotes, they don’t count as empirical evidence. | |
| Nov 4, 2010 at 13:14 | comment | added | shimonyk | @Konrad - empirical evidence: When I was a new programmer I personally added code to an un-braced if block without realizing that the previous programmer had not bothered with braces. I have personally seen other people do this with my own eyes. Granted, only once did I see someone need help to find the problem after running their code, but that had more to do with bad testing skills. | |
| Nov 3, 2010 at 20:57 | comment | added | Murph | As Python uses indentation instead of delimiters they are implicit its not a valid comparison. | |
| Nov 3, 2010 at 16:42 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | I categorically don’t buy the readability claim. Python is one of the most readable languages there is and it doesn’t need delimiters. That claim is just not true. I also don’t buy the maintainability claim because it’s so far unproven and still repeatedly rehashed. But in this case I’m actually very interested in empirical evidence. This is something that a study could very easily find out, and settle once and for all. | |
| Nov 3, 2010 at 14:52 | history | answered | shimonyk | CC BY-SA 2.5 |