Why do Perl control statements require braces?

Question

This may look like the recent question that asked why Perl doesn\'t allow one-liners to be \"unblocked,\" but I found the answers to that question unsatisfactory because they ei

Answer 1

Just guessing here, but "unblocked" loops/ifs/etc. tend to be places where subtle bugs are introduced during code maintenance, since a sloppy maintainer might try to add another line "inside the loop" without realizing that it's not really inside.

Of course, this is Perl we're talking about, so probably any argument that relies on maintainability is suspect... :)