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Tue Jan 3 19:42:43 CET 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115269.html

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Matt Joiner writes:
> 
>  > Readability is the highest concern, and this should be at the
>  > discretion of the contributor.
> 
> That's quite backwards.  "Readability" is community property, and has
> as much, if not more, to do with common convention as with some
> absolute metric.  The "contributor's discretion" must yield.

Readability also includes more than just the source code; as has already 
been stated:

  if(cond) {
    stmt1;
+  stmt2;
  }

vs.

-if(cond)
+if(cond) {
    stmt1;
+  stmt2;
+}

I find the diff version that already had braces in place much more readable.

~Ethan~

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