On 2018-Nov-08, Tom Lane wrote:
> For the record --- I just checked, and pgindent will not mess up code like
>
> if (condition)
> /* comment here */
> do_something();
>
> at least not as long as the comment is short enough for one line.
> (If it's a multiline comment, it seems to want to put a blank line
> in front of it, which is not very nice in this context.)
Yeah, those blank lines are what I've noticed, and IMO they look pretty
bad.
> Visually, however, I think this is better off with braces because
> it *looks* like a multi-line if-block. The braces also make it
> clear that your intent was not, say,
>
> while (some-mutable-condition)
> /* skip */ ;
> do_something_else();
Right, that too. Fortunately I think compilers warn about mismatching
indentation nowadays, at least in some cases.
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