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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:48:51 -0700
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On 11/1/2012 10:54 AM, Brian Wilson wrote:
> I got in the habbit of always using the "{}" (even if they aren't 
> absolutely necessary) to avoid such issues on general principal.
I don't think it's conducive to productivity to constantly type things 
that aren't needed for the simple sake of consistency - especially 
special characters which are by nature harder to type. As they say "a 
foolish consistency is the hobglobin of little minds". I add "syntactic 
sugar" only when required, much like a native English speaker doesn't 
shy away from things like contractions under a habit of always spelling 
out all words even if they aren't absolutely necessary... YMMV.
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