[petsc-dev] Style Guide: How to format single-line if/for/while-blocks?

[Mark F. Adams]

> 
> 
>      if (xxx) {
>         something;
>         somethingelse;}
>      else {
>         yet another thing;}
> 
> (python like) but I am so damn use to the } on its own line I don't want to use this condensed form.

And some folks don't like "egyptian" braces and want { on its own line, and why not if } needs its own line why not  { ?