82 posts tagged with "programming"

Coding Horror, almost two years back, christened a name for the principle variously known as "don't repeat yourself," "once and only once," etc.: Curly's Law. Excellent formulation of the principle. In sending this to my development team, I thought it would be useful to pull this from the abstract to the specific through a few questions:

Something I was reading this weekend pointed out that leaving braces out of a one-line block can be dangerous. For instance, it is correct to code the following (and I do it all the time!)

if (someCondition)
    this.doSomething();