this is getting boring. ever time a patch using no parentheses shows up there is that comment. if all your code uses that style you get used to it. feel free to show evidence of openbsd making that mistake once! (there might have been those, but i am sure it's going to be very hard to find).
Perhaps you need to consider the bigger picture. The biggest part of being a programmer is not in how many characters we write but in how we are able to know and understand abstract concepts.
If writing defensively by always putting braces around if statements means we no longer have to consider the possibility of a fall through error, then that saves mental processing for you and more importantly for lesser programmers.
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this is getting boring. ever time a patch using no parentheses shows up there is that comment. if all your code uses that style you get used to it. feel free to show evidence of openbsd making that mistake once! (there might have been those, but i am sure it's going to be very hard to find).
Perhaps you need to consider the bigger picture. The biggest part of being a programmer is not in how many characters we write but in how we are able to know and understand abstract concepts.
If writing defensively by always putting braces around if statements means we no longer have to consider the possibility of a fall through error, then that saves mental processing for you and more importantly for lesser programmers.