Question/Rule Proposal for blank line after one line if

I didn’t find any rule to check for a blank line after one line if statements that don’t use braces. I don’t want to force the use of curly braces for one line if statements to be able to enforce a blank line separation from if to if (rule 1513)

If there is no such rule, I would like to propose it, something like “Single line if statements should be followed by a blank line”

I want to avoid this type of code:

if (somevar == somevalue)
    // A line of code
if (someothervar == someothervalue)
    // Another line of code

and favor this:

if (somevar == somevalue)
    // A line of code

if (someothervar == someothervalue)
    // Another line of code

without having to do this:

if (somevar == somevalue)
{
    // A line of code
}

if (someothervar == someothervalue)
{
    // Another line of code
}

[SeidChr]

Hey, you asked me why i dislike options in codestyle. The answer was about this, and not about your requested new rule.

Your answers appear to me as if i personally attack you in any way. This is not the case. Or at least i did not intend to do so.

Regarding breaking a build on violating sc rules. I can understand why people do this, but i never ever would work with that tool if I wouldn’t have to. Especially with legacy code.

Regarding StyleCop in the compiler: i never got the point why Microsoft did not communicate sc as their suggested codestyle. Some blogs about this mention that people there are just as stubborn as developers everywhere else. So now we get a new codestyle every second year or so from some important team at ms, and everyone feels the urge to change his style to this. 🤷‍♂️

Closing this bucket of discussion now.

[sharwell]

I’m generally in favor of having an analyzer for this case, but there are a few exceptions that I believe would be important. The first two that come to mind are:

1. Allow else or else if to follow without a blank line
2. Allow consecutive if statements without a blank line if the child of each one either returns or throws (i.e. the behavior is equivalent to using else if)