Dangling Else

Why allowing IFs missing ELSE at all? Even Scheme forbids IFs without ELSE clause. Although retarded Common Lisp allows them, despite having WHEN and UNLESS.

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 It works by keeping track of any lexically enclosing statement that is looking for an else clause, so if an else clause is found for the current statement without a following { }, then it is marked as illegal.

As far as I know, no other language has implemented this solution, though GCC does check for a subset. I think it's great that there is still room for better solutions to ancient programming problems.