>>we had coding hints to ALWAYS use braces, as the single line might not stay single forever ;-)
>>(and maintainance dev were expected to miss missing curly braces)
>
>Me too. I was also told to always do this:
>

int foo(int x)
>{
>    .
>    .
>    switch (x)
>    {
>        case 4:
>            return -1;
>            break;        // Always include a break in a case statement
>        .
>        .
>        .
>    }
>}

>
>It's simple: some things we were taught by well-meaning people were just plain wrong. :-)

C# won't compile if there isn't a 'break;'