如果不使用{和}，很容易意外地用注释更改控制流。例如:

if (condition)
  do_something();
else
  do_something_else();

must_always_do_this();

如果你用一行注释注释掉do_something_else()，你会得到这样的结果:

if (condition)
  do_something();
else
  //do_something_else();

must_always_do_this();

它会编译，但must_always_do_this()并不总是被调用。

我们在代码库中遇到了这个问题，有人在发布之前很快地禁用了一些功能。幸运的是，我们在代码审查中发现了它。

帮助防止在前面的回答中描述的错误的一个选项是内联您希望在不使用大括号时发生的事情。当您尝试修改代码时，很难不注意到错误。

if (condition) doSomething();
else doSomethingElse();

if (condition) doSomething();
    doSomething2(); // Looks pretty obviously wrong
else // doSomethingElse(); also looks pretty obviously wrong

如果你是一个编译器，这没有任何区别。两者是一样的。

但是对于程序员来说，第一个更清晰，更容易阅读，更不容易出错。

所有其他答案都捍卫了讲师的规则3。

让我说我同意你的观点:这个规则是多余的，我不建议它。确实，如果你总是添加花括号，理论上可以防止错误。另一方面，我在现实生活中从未遇到过这个问题:与其他答案所暗示的相反，我从未忘记在必要时添加花括号。如果使用适当的缩进，一旦多个语句缩进，就需要立即添加花括号。

Component 10给出的答案实际上突出了唯一可能导致错误的情况。但另一方面，通过正则表达式替换代码总是需要非常小心。

现在让我们看看奖章的另一面:总是使用花括号有缺点吗?其他答案完全忽略了这一点。但也有一个缺点:它占用了大量的垂直屏幕空间，这反过来又会使您的代码不可读，因为这意味着您不得不超出必要的滚动次数。

考虑一个函数在开头有很多保护子句(是的，下面是糟糕的c++代码，但在其他语言中，这将是相当常见的情况):

void some_method(obj* a, obj* b)
{
    if (a == nullptr)
    {
        throw null_ptr_error("a");
    }
    if (b == nullptr)
    {
        throw null_ptr_error("b");
    }
    if (a == b)
    {
        throw logic_error("Cannot do method on identical objects");
    }
    if (not a->precondition_met())
    {
        throw logic_error("Precondition for a not met");
    }

    a->do_something_with(b);
}

这是可怕的代码，我强烈认为下面的代码可读性更强:

void some_method(obj* a, obj* b)
{
    if (a == nullptr)
        throw null_ptr_error("a");
    if (b == nullptr)
        throw null_ptr_error("b");
    if (a == b)
        throw logic_error("Cannot do method on identical objects");
    if (not a->precondition_met())
        throw logic_error("Precondition for a not met");

    a->do_something_with(b);
}

类似地，短嵌套循环可以从省略花括号中获益:

matrix operator +(matrix const& a, matrix const& b) {
    matrix c(a.w(), a.h());

    for (auto i = 0; i < a.w(); ++i)
        for (auto j = 0; j < a.h(); ++j)
            c(i, j) = a(i, j) + b(i, j);

    return c;
}

比较:

matrix operator +(matrix const& a, matrix const& b) {
    matrix c(a.w(), a.h());

    for (auto i = 0; i < a.w(); ++i)
    {
        for (auto j = 0; j < a.h(); ++j)
        {
            c(i, j) = a(i, j) + b(i, j);
        }
    }

    return c;
}

第一个代码很简洁;第二个代码很臃肿。

是的，这可以通过在前一行上加上开大括号在一定程度上得到缓解。所以:如果你坚持使用大括号，至少要把左大括号放在前一行。

简而言之:不要编写占用屏幕空间的不必要代码。

在最初写答案的时间里，我基本上接受了流行的代码风格，使用大括号，除非我能把整个语句放在前一行。我仍然认为不使用冗余大括号通常更具可读性，而且我仍然从未遇到过由此引起的错误。

我能想到的最贴切的例子是:

if(someCondition)
   if(someOtherCondition)
      DoSomething();
else
   DoSomethingElse();

Which if will the else be paired with? Indentation implies that the outer if gets the else, but that's not actually how the compiler will see it; the inner if will get the else, and the outer if doesn't. You would have to know that (or see it behave that way in debugging mode) to figure out by inspection why this code might be failing your expectations. It gets more confusing if you know Python; in that case you know that indentation defines code blocks, so you would expect it to evaluate according to the indentation. C#, however, doesn't give a flying flip about whitespace.

话虽如此，从表面上看，我并不特别同意这个“总是使用括号”的规则。它使代码的垂直噪声非常大，降低了快速读取代码的能力。如果语句是:

if(someCondition)
   DoSomething();

... then it should be written just like this. The statement "always use brackets" sounds like "always surround mathematical operations with parentheses". That would turn the very simple statement a * b + c / d into ((a * b) + (c / d)), introducing the possibility of missing a close-paren (the bane of many a coder), and for what? The order of operations is well-known and well-enforced, so the parentheses are redundant. You'd only use parentheses to enforce a different order of operations than would normally be applied: a * (b+c) / d for instance. Block braces are similar; use them to define what you want to do in cases where it differs from the default, and is not "obvious" (subjective, but usually pretty common-sense).

我必须承认，我并不总是在单行中使用{}，但这是一种很好的练习。

假设你写的代码没有括号，看起来像这样: For (int I = 0;I < 100;+ + i) For (int j = 0;J < 100;+ + j) DoSingleStuff ();

过了一段时间，你想在j循环中添加一些其他东西，你只是通过对齐来做，忘记添加括号。

Memory deallocation is faster. Let’s say you have a big scope and create big arrays inside (without new so they are on the stack). Those arrays are removed from memory just after you leave the scope. But it is possible that you use that array in one place and it will be on the stack for a while and be some kind of rubbish. As a stack have limited and quite small size, it is possible to exceed the stack size. So in some cases it is better to write {} to preventing that. Note that this is not for a single line, but for such situations: if (...) { //SomeStuff... {//we have no if, while, etc. //SomeOtherStuff } //SomeMoreStuff } The third way to use is similar to the second. It is just not to make the stack cleaner, but to open some functions. If you use mutex in long functions usually it is better to lock and unlock just before accessing data and just after finishing reading/writing that. Note: This way is used if you have some of your own class or struct with a constructor and destructor to lock memory. What is more: if (...) if (...) SomeStuff(); else SomeOtherStuff(); // Goes to the second if, but alignment shows it is on first...

总而言之，我不能说，总是使用{}的最佳方式是单行，但这样做并没有什么不好。

如果你编写的是编译代码，但是如果你的代码是被解释的，那么你的代码就会非常非常慢。非常轻微。