Java switch cases: with or without braces?

Question

Consider the following two snippets, with braces:

switch (var) {
  case FOO: {
    x = x + 1;
    break;
  }

  case BAR: {
    y = y + 1;
    break;
  }
}
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Answer 1

This question is probably going to be closed as "argumentative" (BRACE WAR!) but what the heck. I actually like the braces after the cases. To me it makes the ugly switch syntax look more like the rest of the language constructs. (There is no penalty for using braces in this "case")