From -217656147370005878 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,e92ba5a0251f1ca0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-20 10:32:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Carl Daniel" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: C++0x Wish List (deprecate null statement) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:31:29 GMT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <23b84d65.0206181331.3d79ce9b@posting.google.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1024594300 mail2news:12846 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:06:38 EDT X-UserInfo1: Q[R_PJONVBRWBTH]^JKBOW@@YJ_ZTB\MV@BNMRQIMASJETAANVW[AKWZE\]^XQWIGNE_[EBL@^_\^JOCQ^RSNVLGTFTKHTXHHP[NB\_C@\SD@EP_[KCXX__AGDDEKGFNB\ZOKLRNCY_CGG[RHT_UN@C_BSY\G__IJIX_PLSA[CCFAULEY\FL\VLGANTQQ]FN Lines: 27 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:12194 "Michiel Salters" wrote in message news:cefd6cde.0206190346.697f276@posting.google.com... > Isn't this primarily a QoI thing? If your compiler issued a > "Warning: if-statement misses controlled statement (extra ';' ?)" > would you still want the null-statement deprecated? > > I commonly write > > catch (Ex) > { ; } > Just out of curiousity, why the ; in there? If I encountered { ; } in code, I'd be suspicious that something had been accidently deleted, while { } is, to me at least, clearly an intentionally empty statement. -cd --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]