Add a new statement to the while-loop. Now you've figured out why that style isn't so hot. You now have to remember to go add the new braces, and typically people are mentally putting them in so they forget. Same with the last if-statement. You'll go, add the new line, indent and go "cool done". Then scratch your head for hours wondering why it's not working.
Oh, well there are two issues here: whether to always include braces, and what brace style to use. Whitesmiths is a brace style, that's what I was pointing out. The decision to include braces or not is a different thing. I tend to omit braces in obvious situations, but am not beholden to it.
Exactly. Fully bracketed syntax prevents this kind of maintenance breakage.
Weird contrast: Perl, for all its klugy syntax, requires fully bracketed syntax on the statement bodies of "if", "while" & the like, so this never happens. Of course, you get other readability issues there...
