[taeric]

That logic clearly fails, though. You will never do everything to prevent a failure. (As an example, there are almost always stronger materials. Cost is a requirement,)

Though, your point here is interesting. Using curlies probably could have stopped that bug. Using static analysis that saw dead code definitely would have stopped it.

In this case, mechanisms (automatic checking for dead code) are vastly superior to good intentions (always using curlies).

[paulddraper]

You're right.

I didn't mean literally everything. I mean everything that has more benefits than costs. I consider consistent curly brace style to fit in that category.

[taeric]

Consistent is nice. There are place where it is consistent to not use them, though.

And to be clear, I find that just as weird as you probably do. :)