Well, yeah. But that kind of misses the point--that it would be far better if the design of the language were such that this kind of bug could not have occurred.
Sure but you could just as easily add this as a compiler flag to any language. For example, I think gofmt will auto-brace your conditionals and other such things. I'm all for interesting language design but this isn't a very powerful example.
Adding a compiler flag after the fact does nothing to change the volumes of code that either were written before it existed or without regard for it. Also, especially in the case of C++, have fun using that feature while including any third party headers that don't adhere to that convention.
From a language design perspective, part of the reason this is such a good example is precisely because there is so little to be gained by allowing the braces to be optional.
