unbraced

Unbraced hashes can only occur in last-argument-of-function position, so unless it's naked (not a parenthesized subexpression) in that position, it can't be an unbraced hash.

The unbraced if is still not great style, but it wasn't the cause of the security blunder.

Apple's goto-related SSL vulnerability this week is a blatant, high-profile reminder of how harmful unbraced conditionals are.

There are a number of ways to make a multi-line macro safe for use in an unbraced expression body.

Regardless, people very often become hyper-focused in this types of debates to be point of being completely unbraced by reality.

A 4' long unbraced 2x6 is rated at 4247 lbs in the page you linked.

With all the pitfalls of C, the unbraced ifs feels like a very impotent example.

C let you use unbraced-ifs, and now it's the most used language in the world.

If you are modifying an unbraced if-statement and aren't paying attention to scoping, then you are being woefully negligent at your job.

I realized my body naturally compensated for the first brace by putting more strain on the unbraced knee.

I couldn't immediately tell whether the where-clause acts like a guard predicate in the for-statement or an unbraced if-statement i.e.

The error was that the nonce stopped being incremented (see the linked Tarsnap blog post), but the author suggests the issue there is the unbraced if.

If you think someone is "woefully negligent at their job" for modifying an unbraced if statement, how about pilots who fly their airliner into the ground?

ChatGPT, write a poem about "considered harmful" "Considered Harmful" A label too often placed, On thoughts and ideas unbraced, By those who fear the change it brings, And cling to what familiarity brings.

Whelp, back to business as usual." I don't see unbraced-ifs as this great security flaw, and I don't see 'fixing' it as curing some endemic problem with language design that's going to lead us to not have bugs like this again.

"The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Richie;-) What it could really use some deprecation of the more idiotic, dangerous, useless features (eg explicit constructors should be the default, unbraced single line blocks only introduce bugs and have no positive value at all).

Unbraced blocks are a minor thing that mostly don't matter.