In short, if that's how he likes his code, let him do it. I for one like it his way.

I only posted because he mentioned that it looked ugly to him:

but it looks pretty ugly to me.

And I suppose you'd change print; to print(); to improve readability? Anyway, close takes no arguments. I like to leave out unnecessary parens whenever possible, and I'm guessing other people do too.

Okay, I find this comment to be bordering on flamebait - of course I wouldn't change print; to print();. I changed close to close() because it's object oriented style and it makes it blindingly obvious even at a glance that close() is a method and not a variable reference. Some people like to leave out unnecessary parens wherever possible. Some don't. I don't think it's fair to criticise what I've written at the same time you're telling me that I should let every person code how they like to code.

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