> I do think this is even more concise than they would have written in maintained code. In particular, I believe the missing {}'s for the 'while' and 'for' loop

> I do think this is even more concise than they would have written in maintained code. In particular, I believe the missing {}'s for the 'while' and 'for' loops wouldn't have been left away, but I might be mistaken. Well it depends a bit. Plan 9 is written very much in this style, but its easy to maintain because it has rules on when to omit things like braces or parens. You learn the rules pretty quickly (or read rob pike's paper) and after reading and using it a bit will make sense and you won't think about it. I would imagine if you just had someone in the group that wrote like this and the rest of you weren't used to it or the rules were applied inconsistently it would be a huge pain to actually deal with. What matters for all styles is that everyone has rules they agree with and actually follow them.