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what are the downsides

• 84Winston 9y ago
  removing "unnecessary" {}? potential disaster. http://heartbleed.com/ http://heartbleed.com/
• moomin 9y ago
  In general terms, in C-like languages, mixing braces and semi-colons is horribly refactor unfriendly and bug prone. Meanwhile, sticking things on one line introduces a cognitive load that you might not want. (YMMV on the second point, but I’ve pretty strong views on the first.)