In the absence of enclosing curly braces, the line immediately after a conditional is the one that is conditionally executed. By both convention
and good practice, such lines are indented. In the absence of both curly braces and indentation the intent of the original programmer is entirely
unclear and perhaps not actually what is executed. Additionally, such code is highly likely to be confusing to maintainers.
Noncompliant Code Example
if (condition) // Noncompliant
doTheThing();
doTheOtherThing();
somethingElseEntirely();
foo();
Compliant Solution
if (condition)
doTheThing();
doTheOtherThing();
somethingElseEntirely();
foo();
