The justifications I've had over the years: "It means we don't have to argue about style" Well... for the most part, I wasn't arguing about your style in the

The justifications I've had over the years: "It means we don't have to argue about style" Well... for the most part, I wasn't arguing about your style in the first place. You're trying to get stuff done your way under the guise of "let's all stop fighting and just get along". I didn't start the fight. "It makes things easier to read" If it's harder for me (and some others) to write it that way, it's because it's not natural/default, and, actually, it might actually be harder for me (and some others) to read as well. I routinely work with folks who like to 'omit' 'unnecessary' lines - omitting a curly brace block in a one-line if is a regular example. if (foo) { bar } ends up as if (foo) bar or if (foo) bar Honestly I can't remember which. Had 'feedback' from people removing my braces saying "these are unnecessary". But now there's two styles I have to be able to read/write, and... there's almost never a time when one line without braces is sufficient forever - whenever I need logging or another piece of code in the block - bam - now I have to add braces, and that whole area of the code looks more 'different' than it used to.