Update style.9 to reflect consensus on developer's mailing list

allowing redundant braces.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2842

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man9/style.9 b/share/man/man9/style.9
index ed65ac6..70dc12d 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/style.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/style.9
@@ -503,13 +503,14 @@ Code which is unreachable for non-obvious reasons may be marked /*
 .Pp
 Space after keywords
 .Pq Ic if , while , for , return , switch .
-No braces
+Two styles of braces
 .Ql ( \&{
 and
 .Ql \&} )
-are
-used for control statements with zero or only a single statement unless that
-statement is more than a single line in which case they are permitted.
+are allowed for single line statements.
+Either they are used for all single statements, or
+they are used only where needed for clarity.
+Usage within a file should be consistent.
 Forever loops are done with
 .Ic for Ns 's ,
 not