Good show dragging bracing style into the discussion. Nevermind that it is one of the oldest and least important battlegrounds in the history of programming, at least you got to be needlessly pedantic.
That's where I assumed the comment was going as well, but it's actually not really about brace style at all. Rather it's about "if style" which is a much more interesting discussion (at least as applied to C error checking).
That's not a charitable reading of my comment, it actually does have practical impact and is not just about style but all about function. I could not care less about the looks but found out the hard way that separating the { from if and while constructs can bite you really hard.