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  1. Path: news.mindlink.net!news
  2. From: Allan_Nienhuis@mindlink.bc.ca (Allan Nienhuis)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,rec.games.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
  5. Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:36:29 GMT
  6. Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
  7. Message-ID: <4l886m$87i@fountain.mindlink.net>
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  11.  
  12. Erwin Wessels <wessels@strangelove> wrote:
  13.  
  14. >this is what you mean, i guess:
  15. >       if(something_happened) {
  16. >             do_something_else();
  17. >             do_yet_another_thing();
  18. >       }
  19. >I'm not talking about the place of the {'s and }'s, now, just the fact 
  20. >that they should be there... :).
  21.  
  22. I think he was pointing out that a novice programmer might indent the
  23. third line incorrectly without having the braces to indicate the end
  24. of the conditionally executed block.
  25.  
  26. Allan_Nienhuis@Mindlink.bc.ca
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