Hmmm. i think that's what larry might have had in mind when he let's us reverse the directives, as in:

$do_this if $this;
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But you're right, i also miss the one-liner-skip-brackets syntax :-( Also, I agree with you- flaming C is bad with or without a smiley face.

But I find cuddled parentheses useful when I have a long block of code, let's say in a while loop, where I don't want to search of the end of some cryptic line where the matching parenthesis is :-O. of course, if one uses a real editor, parenthesis matching is builtin as a quick back hilite but since brackets are not color-coded to matching brackets, it seems simpler to look up your code a few lines and see a matching bracket, indented the same spaces as the matching one below. That's all. But I guess it's just a stylistic issue and nothing painfully important.

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