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>They add visual noise.

Which is a good thing, since it prevents errors such as this one. Extra verbosity with mandatory braces is noise (to the degree that without it, the compiler could still infer what we mean), but some degree of verbosity is a good thing, as it helps make patterns in the code more evident.

In which case we might want to call it a more fitting error than the dismissing "noise".

How about "dither"?




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