Note the use of a statement modifier in the second case. In general, statement modifiers should be preferred over compound statements whenever a single statement is involved, as this simplifies the code.
I STRONGLY oppose to this statement. This might be true for you, but I personally hate statement modifiers used for this, as it causes me to read code backwards, which is a maintenance nightmare.
IF simplification to one-liners is required, I use it the other way round (TIMTOWTDI)
if ($VERBOSE) { PRINT ("SEARCHING: ", FormatPath ($PATH)); }
+ # original
$VERBOSE and printf "" %-8dSEARCHING: %s\n", $TOTAL, FormatPath ($PATH
+); # Readable and understandable
printf " %-8dSEARCHING: %s\n", $TOTAL, FormatPath ($PATH) if $VERBOSE;
+ # unmaintanable
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn