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More than once I've seen people get tripped up when adding statements to conditional blocks without braces. I've done this myself, not claiming to be perfect or anything. For example, adding lines to code like:

if (condition) some_statement();

Resulting in the "obviously wrong if you know what you're looking for but surprisingly easy mistake to make" code:

if (condition) some_statement(); some_other_statement(); some_random_statement();

Added: I mean "obviously wrong" when the code change required is to add the "some_other_statement" and "some_random_statement" to the conditional. If you just look at the second code snippet without some other context, it's not clear whether it's just an indentation issue or an error due to lack of braces.


In reply to Re: Hidden Benefit of Perl Syntax by Nkuvu
in thread Hidden Benefit of Perl Syntax by Errto

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