I downvoted it to indicate that I don&#x27;t agree with your preference.  I rarely downvote for disagreement, but this was a case where I thought it worthwhile to offer the feedback that others strongly do not share your view.  My equally strongly felt subjective personal belief is that single line if statements without braces are fine, but that once a second line is required braces should be mandatory.<p>I find the single line &quot;if&quot; statement without braces to be clearer and simpler than ternary with a (void) expression, and don&#x27;t think the downsides are significant.   It breaks if you were to add another statement after the semicolon on the same line, but I think that should almost always be avoided anyway.<p>I do find it interesting that others prefer two-line without braces over the single line approach.  I find this one to be more dangerous than the single line.  Possibly because with line-oriented debuggers it can be hard to set the right breakpoint?<p>It&#x27;s quite possible that others are downvoting because they think you are trolling, and that no one would actually believe the ternary operator to be clearer.  I wondered also about your defense of Allman braces, which I didn&#x27;t downvote because I think it&#x27;s a good example of how different the others&#x27;s views can be on what seems obvious.   While I think (some of) your views are in the (very small) minority, please keep posting them!