As a rule of thumb I use braces and parens as a standard. I think making parens and braces optional was a mistake and they are necessary punctuation to the lang

As a rule of thumb I use braces and parens as a standard. I think making parens and braces optional was a mistake and they are necessary punctuation to the language. There is simply too much ambiguity without them and then when you're mixing and matching things become unreadable.