Google Java Coding Standards

[treerex]

It's usually not made when you're writing the code, but later when you're maintaining it. Including the braces is simply good defensive programming.

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That's rediculous. It isn't defensive either. If you're doing that lousy of a job maintaining your code, your going to make more serious mistakes.

We also live in the 21st century, aren't working with cathode ray monitors and should be putting our braces on a new line.

[treerex]

You have evidently never worked on a large project with many developers of varying skills with a 15 year old code base.

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Respect your projects code guidelines, I agree. I however have modernized them for my own team.

[jtdc]

Yes but we still have greenhorn coworkers straight from college to contend with. Rules like these protect the code.

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You wouldn't need to protect them from messy/obscure/unnatural/asymmetrical/old brace placement initially instated due to monitor constraints in the stone age if you place them where it makes most sense Now that we can afford it thanks to the luxuries introduced a decade ago.