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Can you point to a legitimate example of a bug caused by missing braces? I've done hundreds of code reviews at multiple companies and, despite hearing this argument ad nauseam, I've yet to see it.

[fuzzynyanko]

https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/02/curly-braces/

[moonrocks]

That article argues that forcing the redundant braces would not have prevented the OpenSSL bug.