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> Often I'll find code written by self styled haxors who omit curly braces and nest ternary operators because they can. That's great but it ends up biting you in the ass.

I've worked on codebases where omitting curly braces for single line IF was the style, but can't recall ever being 'bitten in the ass' by that particular style choice. I can see how when combined with other questionable style choices it could yield some very ugly and error prone code, but by itself I really have trouble understanding why people object to it.