On Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 17:24:40 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> but separate-line opening braces definitely make it easier
>> to see where scopes begin and end.
>
> This is the only argument I have heard in favour of doing this, but it is not actually valid. This critique might apply to Lisp style.

It is perfectly valid and much more important :P