Is if(TRUE) a good idea in C?

Question

In the C programming language, it is my understanding that variables can only be defined at the beginning of a code block, and the variable will have the scope of the block it w

Answer 1

You can remove the

if(TRUE)

and just leave the braces, which by themselves define a new syntactic block - a compound statement.

This is definitely cleaner than the false if you had before, but you might still like to ask yourself why you want to create a new block - would it be better to define a subroutine?