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Sun Oct 19 18:40:34 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039029.html

Alex Martelli wrote:

> On Sunday 19 October 2003 11:40 pm, Brett C. wrote:
>    ...
> 
>>#define Py_RETURN_FALSE do {Py_INCREF(Py_False); return Py_False;} while (0)
>>
>>Isn't {Py_INCREF(Py_None); return Py_None} enough?  I thought ending a
>>curly brace with a semi-colon is harmless (equivalent of a NO-OP).  Why
> 
> 
> Not in C: the extra semicolon is an empty statement.  So, for example
> 
>     if(...) {
>     } ; else 
> 
> is a syntax error.
> 
> 
>>bother with the do/while loop?
> 
> 
> To let the user put a semicolon after the macro and get correct C code.
> 
> 

Nuts.  Time for another commit...

-Brett

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