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

Depending on the language, having braces for a single lined conditional statement or loop statement is not mandatory. In fact, I would remove them to have fewer lines of code.

C++:

Version 1:

class InvalidOperation{};

//...
Divide(10, 0);
//...
Divide(int a, in b)
{
   if(b == 0 ) throw InvalidOperation();
   return a/b;
}

Version 2:

class InvalidOperation{};

//...
Divide(10, 0);
//...
Divide(int a, in b)
{
   if(b == 0 )
   { 
      throw InvalidOperation();
   }
   return a/b;
}

C#:

Version 1:

foreach(string s in myList)
   Console.WriteLine(s);

Version2:

foreach(string s in myList)
{
   Console.WriteLine(s);
}

Depending on your perspective, version 1 or version 2 will be more readable. The answer is rather subjective.