JavaScript Concern from a recent review

[Myk Melez]

Colin Ogilvie wrote:
> I'm concerned by a recent review Myk did on a JavaScript file (quoted 
> above) where he says that for one-line conditionals and loop blocks 
> you should omit braces (as a Nit).
>
> I'd like to suggest that this is a bad practice, and possibly going to 
> cause confusion in the future, particularly in the example above. For 
> clarity, it would be better written including braces.
The advantages to omitting braces are code concision and consistency 
with Firefox coding practices.

> Does anyone else have thoughts on this, or is it just because I've 
> been bitten by this in something I was doing at work...
I've been bitten occasionally by implicit braces, but I'm bitten 
regularly by complex code, and braces for one-line blocks adds to that 
complexity without providing enough compensatory elucidation, IMHO.

-myk