I have to admit that after 30 years of seeing Basic and Cobol programs structured
if (cond)
do something
else
do something else
It may be prejudice that makes me prefer this structure. But I do think there is good reason too.
George_Sherston's comment about the relative importance of the things_to_do is a good one and I take this into account by making free use of unless() {}, but there's another issue here, for which I will put on my tester's hat. It is important that we see clearly that it is a condition. From the perspective of a test designer, the presence of a condition is more important that what it does. And since I think better code gets written if everyone who comes into contact with it thinks about it from a tester's perspective, that makes "C" style a clear winner for me.
BTW SInce I was using the "C" style a long time before C was invented, I find it hard to accept the phrase "traditional C style"!!
