braces

In C, you see curly braces and you know you have a block.

I was your typical victim, glasses, braces, good at computers.

Imo a single-line if without braces is an accident waiting to happen.

JavaScript minifiers use commas to avoid braces in control statements.

People who are willing to reinvent the syntax of a language only to shave a few parens and braces have a lot to learn yet about what truly matters.

Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart.

Go there and see how many kids go around the hallways with dislocated shoulders, sprained ankles, fractures, neck braces, broken fingers from playing contact sports.

When I was learning Rails I was berated with tutorials that made statements like "Rails is a whole new way of thinking" or "Rails means you don't have to work with cruft like braces!!".

Because there are basically no more braces and parentheses, CoffeeScript just tries to guess what you're doing, as far as I can tell, based on a bunch of internal heuristics.

Exception handling becomes more compact when you're writing something less trivial and you don't have to repeat the same error handling code after every call.> Try/catch is goto wrapped in pretty braces.

Similarly, the inclusion of curly braces for maps is wonderful, as it makes maps a lot more common in Clojure than they would otherwise be in CL, which is a good thing for most business logic.> replicatable in CL as a libraryDefaults matter.