Dangling if

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On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 15:26:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, October 01, 2012 08:56:25 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> I don't know if maybe this is somehow related to my inability 
>> to accept
>> or feel comfortable with indent-based languages, but I don't 
>> think
>> there's ever been a time I've forgotten to add curly braces 
>> when adding
>> another statement to a one-statement 'if' or 'else' clause. 
>> It's just
>> automatically the first thing I do, kinda like automatically 
>> turning
>> the headlights off when I park the car (although the 
>> "headlights" thing
>> is admittedly much more subconscious than the curly braces). 
>> I'll
>> forget a semicolon pretty often, but the {} I haven't had a 
>> problem
>> with.
>
> I'm in the same boat. I've never had a problem with this, and 
> it baffles me that
> people keep thinking that it's an issue.
>
>> I might just be weird, though.
>
> Well, you are. ;)
>
> But not because of this.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>
>
> P.S. #1 reason to hate languages which don't use braces: 
> there's no way in vim
> to hop to the beginning or end of a scope block (or function) 
> from the other
> end. And _man_ is that annoying. God bless braces.

That would be an issue with your editor of choice not the 
languages in question - I'm sure there are more suitable 
editors/IDEs for such languages which are indent aware (as well 
as scripts that add that functionality for vim).