Dangling Else, Yet Again

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:j5gv0j$825$1 at digitalmars.com...
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kooiy/dangling_else_yet_again/
>
> Andrei

"It works by keeping track of any lexically enclosing statement that is 
looking for an else clause, so if an else clause is found for the current 
statement without a following { }, then it is marked as illegal."

Can someone explain that for me? (My brain is completely scrambled right now 
from a nasty Flash/IE bug.)