Title: Braces vs. Colons
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Braces vs. Colons

 *  [jbbrwcky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbbrwcky/)
 * (@jbbrwcky)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/braces-vs-colons/)
 * I was just reading about the WordPress Coding Standards over at the Codex ([http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards))
   and I looked at the braces bit. Are we encouraged to use braces rather than the
   colon style? Are there any plans to phase one or the other out, or will support
   be constant? Are there advantages of using one or the other, in terms of speed
   for example?
 * Thanks,
    Jbbrwcky

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 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/braces-vs-colons/#post-227403)
 * I’m not aware of any performance difference. Colons are only encouraged when 
   a nested block gets too long, or too many levels of indentation result.
 *  Thread Starter [jbbrwcky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbbrwcky/)
 * (@jbbrwcky)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/braces-vs-colons/#post-227452)
 * Thx!

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