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    @jpmc26, Better? No. Valid alternative style? Of course. Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 16:48
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    Better as in harder to mess up when the code is edited later, and not suffering from any notable disadvantages. Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 16:50
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    Keeping them together because of "loop contents might be long" seems to be a weak argument. When your for content is hard to read then you have other problems than saving the two lines of code. Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 18:37
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    @jpmc26 Disagree. Braces are superfluous clutter in the shortest, one-liner conditionals as per this answer. Without is more elegant and easier on the eye. They're like a ternary conditional operator. I have never forgotten to add the braces while breaking them out into bigger statement blocks; I'm already adding newlines after all. Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 19:35
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    It's all a style preference, but if one makes the argument that it's safer, I would disagree with that reasoning. I myself prefer without braces and on the next line, but that doesn't mean it's any more or less valid than other styles Commented Feb 27, 2018 at 19:59