Are singleline if statements or if statements without braces bad practice?

Question

if (condition) { /* do something */ }
else { /* do something */ }

if (condition)
    /* do something */
else
    /* do something */

I was told tha

Answer 1

My preference if for consistency... so:

if(...)
{
   statement 1;
   statement 2;
}
else
{
   statement 1;
   statement 2;
}

is no different than:

if(...)
{
   statement 1;
}
else
{
   statement 1;
}

So I always use them because it is consistent and it avoids problems forgetting to add them in later.

However other people will look at my code and think that it is stupid to put in the { and }. They have their reasons, I have mine... I happen to like my reasons more than I like theirs :-)