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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:28:57 -0700
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 24/09/2024 15:52, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
[...]
>> The same applies to
>>    if(x)
>>      bar(x);
>> This is the right thing to do. It is the most readable and elegant
>> way to write a simple `if`.
>
> Well, it is the ONLY way C provides to write the branches of an
> if-statement. Each only takes a single statement.

You misunderstood.  Andrey was saying that
    if(x)
      bar(x);
is right and
    if(x) bar(x);
is wrong.  Of course both are legal; Andrey is arguing that nobody
should ever use the second form.

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */