Agree.
This seems to be a matter of personal taste as indicated by the discussion at: A matter of style: how to perform a simple action based on a simple condition?
In addition to preferring block-if to postfix-if I always use the multi-line form of block-if. Why?
Consider changing:
if ($VERBOSE) {
PRINT("SEARCHING ...");
}
to:
if ($VERBOSE) {
# Do something else here ... or just add a clarifying comment
PRINT("SEARCHING ...");
}
With multi-line block-if that's an easy to understand one line change and easier to understand at a glance when looking at the change history of the file in version control.
OTOH, with postfix-if, adding a second statement to the if condition requires making more and harder-to-understand code changes.
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