Mandatory use of braces

Question

As part of a code standards document I wrote awhile back, I enforce \"you must always use braces for loops and/or conditional code blocks, even (especially) if they\'re only one

Answer 1

Many languanges have a syntax for one liners like this (I'm thinking of perl in particular) to deal with such "ugliness". So something like:

if (foo)     
//bar
else     
//baz

can be written as a ternary using the ternary operator:

foo ? bar : baz

and

while (something is true)
{
blah 
}

can be written as:

blah while(something is true)

However in languages that don't have this "sugar" I would definitely include the braces. Like you said it prevents needless bugs from creeping in and makes the intention of the programmer clearer.