Bug 86417 – check-webkit-style complains about anonymous blocks in C code

• Status: NEW
• Component: Tools / Tests

[Andy Estes]

When using an anonymous block in C code, such as:

dispatch_async(queue, ^{
    // anonymous block
});

check-webkit-style complains:

"Missing space before {  [whitespace/braces] [5]"

As far as I know our style guide doesn't cover blocks specifically, but this is a common style and should probably be allowed.

[Andy Estes]

The patch in <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86411> has an example of such a block.

[David Levin]

Should be too hard to fix the regex if it bothers you:

http://code.google.com/searchframe#OAMlx_jo-ck/src/third_party/WebKit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/style/checkers/cpp.py&exact_package=chromium&q=%22Missing%20space%20before%20%7B%22&l=1911


and add a corresponding test here:

http://code.google.com/searchframe#OAMlx_jo-ck/src/third_party/WebKit/Tools/Scripts/webkitpy/style/checkers/cpp_unittest.py&exact_package=chromium&q=%22Missing%20space%20before%20%7B%22&l=1633