Is it ok to not include {} when the inner code block contains more than 1 instruction

[deft quiver]

For example this code runs ok. The for loop body seems to count as only 1 instruction. is this guaranteed to work? and not considered a smell?

        for(int i = 0; i<10; i++)
                if(i%2==0){
                        printf("number ");
                        printf("%d\n", i);
                } else
                        printf("this is not it\n");

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[deft quiver]

im worried about adding bugs to my code and have been adding {} that are probably not needed and I'd like to make things as terse as possible

[vivid ingot]

So this does work as the entire if/else chain is treated (sort of) as the one statement.

However, for sake of clarity, it would be probably better to use the {} even if not strictly needed

[deft quiver]

agreeded, but the behavior is guarnteed?

[vivid ingot]

Yes

[inner valley]

As a rule of thumb: If in doubt, use curly braces

[vivid ingot]

ifs and all of their sub statements are all considered one statement for the sake of grammar parsing

[deft quiver]

thank you @atomic field @vivid ingot

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