It’s been clearly put, although opinion none the less, that forgoing curly brackets on a single line if statement is not ideal for maintainability and readability.
But what about this?
if (lemons) { document.write("foo gave me a bar"); }
It’s even more compressed, and if expanded, the curly brackets won’t be forgotten. Are there any blatant problems, and if not, what are the considerations? I feel like it’s still very readable, at least as much as a ternary operator anyway. It seems to me like ternary operators aren’t suggested as much due to readability, although I feel like that that conclusion isn’t quite as unanimous.
The evil twin in me wants to suggest this, although the syntax obviously isn’t meant for it, and is probably just a bad idea.
(syntax) ? document.write("My evil twin emerges"): "";
