Question

I have seen comments breaking Java code, and I remember that brace style could mess with C++ code. Are there any cases in which comments or brace style (or coding style in general) can influence the correctness or source code? I can’t think of any off the top of my head.

(I am explicitly not asking how to comment and which brace style to chose, unless it is a direct consequence of trying to keep code correctness.)

Answer 1

As you’ve brought up the “unicode escape sequences in comments” issue (in the comments to the question) – C# is not vulnerable to this. Escape sequences such as \u000d are only converted to corresponding Unicode characters in string and character literals, and in identifiers.

As for the bracing aspect: my guess is that’s to do with macros in C++, although again an example would be handy. Not a problem in C#, which doesn’t have macros.

There are some subtle issues with other style choices, such as whether your using directives appear inside or outside the namespace declaration. But nothing in terms of comments and braces as far as I’m aware.