Perhaps you need to consider the bigger picture. The biggest part of being a programmer is not in how many characters we write but in how we are able to know and understand abstract concepts.
If writing defensively by always putting braces around if statements means we no longer have to consider the possibility of a fall through error, then that saves mental processing for you and more importantly for lesser programmers.
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Perhaps you need to consider the bigger picture. The biggest part of being a programmer is not in how many characters we write but in how we are able to know and understand abstract concepts.
If writing defensively by always putting braces around if statements means we no longer have to consider the possibility of a fall through error, then that saves mental processing for you and more importantly for lesser programmers.