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jschell wrote:

if(true == expression)

if (condition 1)
{
   // do something 1
}
else if (condition 2)
{
   // do something 2
}
else
{
   // do something 3
}

if (condition 1)
   // do something 1
else if (condition 2)
   // do something 2
else
   // do something 3

if (condition 1)
   // do something 1
else if (condition 2)
   // do something 2A
   // do something 2B      <-- we've exited the scope of the if/else clause. Ooops!
else
   // do something 3

if (condition) ? "do one thing" : "do the other thing";

char *s = null;
char *t = null;
...

t = s ? "some string" : "some default";

switch (operand)
{
   case 1:
      // do something case 1
      break;
   case 2:
      // do something case 2
      break;
   case 3:
      // do something case 3
      break;
   default:
      // do default option
      break;
}

if (condition 1)
{
   if (condition 2)
   {
   }
   else if (condition 3)
   {
      if (condition 4)
      {
      }
   }
}

bool? state;
...
if (state == true)
{
   // do some action if true
}
else if (state == false)
{
   // do some action if false
}
else // state is null
{
   // do some action (default action?) if null
}

Stacy Dudovitz wrote:

If that author forgets to now add the curly braces to enclose scope, bad things happen.

Stacy Dudovitz wrote:

often unit testing is more to tick off a checkbox

else {
// yes you can reach this
throw wtf;
}