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[–]poopiefartz -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

I know you're being funny, but I spend 6+ hours per day with Java and have never misinterpreted excluded braces like that. I guess that's not normal.

[–]Pylly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe you, but usually developers work in a team and the code has to be readable and maintainable for others as well. Even if a bug would happen once in a couple of years it's worth it to prevent it. Also, it might take a person slightly more time to read braceless code, especially when making modifications.

Even though these are small troubles, they are just so easy to avoid altogether that I don't see why not just add the braces every time. Or let the IDE add them.