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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: how to make a macro work as a single line if stmt without braces
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:42:55 +0100
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On 24/09/2024 20:30, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> On 24/09/2024 15:36, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> The idea of changing the language to always require braces is
>>> unnecessary and wasteful (besides being a non-starter for purely
>>> practical reasons).
>>
>> Well, practically it is not difficult.
> 
> Changing a compiler to require compound statements would not be
> difficult.  Changing the language in that way would be completely
> impractical, because it would break existing code.

But not new code that uses compound statements, which is will still be 
compatible with compilers that don't enforce it.

And as I said, it doesn't break my generated code, and the first 
substantial manually written program I tried worked too.

Adding such an option, if it doesn't already exist, would be trivial.