C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

The code

Add the following statements inside the Main method to check whether this console application has any arguments passed to it:

if (args.Length == 0)
{
   WriteLine("There are no arguments.");
}
else
{
   WriteLine("There is at least one argument.");
}

As there is only a single statement inside each block, this code can be written without the curly braces, as shown in the following code:

if (args.Length == 0) 
  WriteLine("There are no arguments."); 
else 
  WriteLine("There is at least one argument."); 

This style of the if statement is not recommended because it can introduce serious bugs, for example, the infamous #gotofail bug in Apple's iPhone operating system. For 18 months after Apple's iOS 6 was released, it had a bug in its Secure Sockets ...