Hey Bob,
Glad to see the forum is working now! Thanks for the comment, what it comes down to is, I have preferences about coding styles, however, if the majority of contributors and users would rather use a different code style, like with the braces, we would switch to using that. I'm used to seeing the BSD style bracing so to me, that's readable, but if it happens that that's actually a very uncommon and/or disliked style, then it's obviously not readable to everyone else and therefore a detriment to the project and the readability.
I can always adapt to things like this, so if others are reading this, please throw in your 2 cents! If you like The One True Bracing Style, sound off and Bob will thank you when we change the standards :)
If you're curious about different standards for bracing/indention you might find the wikipedia article interesting: Indent Style.