And !!Rant==Rant for that matter.

Happens to me all the time 😐

It yields the current thread (similar to thread.yield) and gives chance to other higher priority threads to use the CPU. Usually not the best practice possible but still valid.

You still can have them -- C and C++ are still around and going strong.

The problem is that this easily becomes

if (condition)
Action();
SomeOtherAction();

And this is hard to spot.
One of the reasons for the notorious Apple 'goto fail bug' was exactly that. A pair of braces and a line more is a good price to pay for scope clarity.

@Haxk20 exactly

"If a cluttered desk is a sign for a cluttered mind, then what an empty desk is a sign for?" -- A. Einstein