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# Blocks with 1 statement
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- The body of an if condition should at preferably have brackets. If the body has just one statement you may leave out the `{}` but in that case put the statement indented on another line. Also only do this if you think it unlikely that you will add more statements to the body later.
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- The body of an if condition should at preferably have brackets. If the body has just one statement you may leave out the `{}` but in that case put the statement indented on another line. Also only do this if you think it unlikely that you will add more statements to the body later.
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**OK:**
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```c
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if (flags & STMT_BLOCK_RETURN_F)  
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    ret = TCappendAssign (ret, ret_stmt);  
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if ((flags & STMT_BLOCK_RETURN_F) && !parse_error) {  
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    BLOCK_VARDECS (ret) = vardecl;  
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}
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```
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**NOT OK:**
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```c
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if (flags & STMT_BLOCK_RETURN_F) ret = TCappendAssign (ret, ret_stmt);  
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``` | 
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