Optional braces

[Walter Bright]

On 8/25/2011 6:30 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/25/11 6:10 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/25/2011 6:04 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Oh god no, don't ban that. I *like* to do that sort of thing:
>>
>> Unusual, but legitimate. I think I'll shelve the idea.
>
> It would be great to reconsider. The counter-argument is very weak.

We've already put a number of special cases in the grammar to ward off "bugs".

But I worry that we might wind up tarting up the language with too many a 
boatload of them, to the point where it becomes a confusing mass. At what point 
should Meg Ryan stop with the plastic surgery? :-)