title: How to combine two JavaScript statements into one
body: <p>Sometimes I want to combine two statements into one to omit curly braces in conditionals. For example, in PHP, instead of writing</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ($direction == 'south-east') {
      $x++;
      $y++;
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would write</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ($direction == 'south-east') $x++ and $y++;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but is there a way to do that in JavaScript? Writing <code>x++ &amp;&amp; y++</code> doesn't seem to work.</p>