Re: [Freeglut-developer] Style issue? (Re: CVS update lost?)

[Sven P. <Sve...@ae...>]

Looking into my mailbox after my holiday, it's surprising to see how many
characters of mail were provoked by two tiny parentheses characters... :-)
  But I don't really understand the trouble here: I've changed configure to
switch on "-Wall -pedantic -Werror" (for the non-GCC folks: "die immediately
if you find anything slightly obscure") by default for GCCs, and this is an
open source project where the use of GCC is very widespread. So anything
strange will immediately be found by somebody on a GCC platform, even if
M$ VS was happy with it.

(Just for the record: The *only* place where I use assignments in conditionals
is in C++, where you can actually declare the variable at the same time
within the conditional. This helps to make the scope of the variable very
clear and small, but the pros and cons of doing so are of course very
subjective. Furthermore, I *hate* the saving of { }, even when there is only
a single statement in the block. Using it all the time is easy without thinking
and most modern IDEs insert them automatically, anyway. Relying on indentation
here to make the intention clearer is a bad idea. I've seen tons of bugs
in commercial software just because of these minor things...)

Cheers,
    S.