Code Inspection: Empty control statement body
There are cases where you need to have control statements (statements that normally require a body, for example while
or foreach
) with an empty body. One example is a busy loop where a while
statement does nothing in its body.
If you use an empty statement as a body, for example while (DoSomething()) ;
, JetBrains Rider suggests to replace the empty statement with an empty block, that is while (DoSomething()) {}
.
With the empty block, you are less likely to come across issues like the following when you later modify your code:
while (DoSomething()) ; // while loop actually ends here with the empty statement
{
DoSomethingElse();
}
Last modified: 07 April 2022