pmjones/fig-standards — comment on commit af71f89b2933e79967a7fbfd9d9fdfdb1be920ce
File: proposed/psr-1-coding-style-guide/0900-control-structures.md line 33
By KingCrunch:

I've seen rules for a while, they said, that when an `if` or `else` (or whatever) only contains a single (short) statement, the `{}` may be omitted, but then the statement must be on the same line.

if ($x) {
// do something
} else return null;

It sounds more natural and it's quite unlikely, that you can forget the braces by mistake, if you want to add new statements, because you need to reformat it anyway. Just as a suggestion :)