Re: [libvirt] why we should use a mechanical indentation checker

I introduced a bug with this supposedly-safe, no-semantic-change delta: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=b6719eab9e95c5daeeea85 See if you can spot it. I am adding something like the following to coreutils' HACKING, and will add the equivalent (adjusting indentation/brace-positioning style in the examples) to libvirt's hacking.html.in, so if you object, speak up soon.

+Curly braces: use judiciously +============================= +Omit the curly braces around an "if", "while", "for" etc. body only when +that body occupies a single line. In every other case we require the braces. +This ensures that it is trivially easy to identify a single-*statement* loop: +each has only one *line* in its body. + +For example, do not omit the curly braces even when the body is just a +single-line statement but with a preceding comment. + +Omitting braces with a single-line body is fine: