What's the purpose of using braces (i.e. {}) for a single-line if or loop?

Question

I\'m reading some lecture notes of my C++ lecturer and he wrote the following:

1. Use Indentation // OK
2. Never rely on operator preced

Answer 1

One option for helping to prevent the errors that have been described above is to inline what you want to happen when you don't use braces. It makes it much harder to not notice the errors when you try to modify the code.

if (condition) doSomething();
else doSomethingElse();

if (condition) doSomething();
    doSomething2(); // Looks pretty obviously wrong
else // doSomethingElse(); also looks pretty obviously wrong