Code Inspection: Empty control statement body

Category	Common Practices and Code Improvements
ID	`EmptyEmbeddedStatement`
EditorConfig	`resharper_empty_embedded_statement_highlighting`
Default severity	Warning
Language	C#
Requires SWA	No

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()) ;, ReSharper suggests replacing 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: 15 April 2024