Parenthesis around if/for/while condition is not necessary

Wed Jul 4 08:19:09 UTC 2018

On Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 04:45:07 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> There is this case that requires parens:
>
>     if a && b c;
>
> Is there a missing && or not ? It seems obvious for a human but 
> compiler parsers are "apparatchiks", i.e rules are rules. That 
> being said this would work by allowing parens for 
> disambiguation.

Why not just require either parens or brackets?