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Thanks for looking into it Chris . I can live with the current syntax for If statements as it usually works out to be much easier to read at a glance and troubleshoot.

...I don't know what all is considered an expression on an if, but I'd require outer ( )'s...I think this might work...


...which could cause ambiguity, but requiring outer parens, should clear it up...


...if not "any command", how about break/return/continue/(any I forgot)...the short commands to end something.

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In addition to breaking existing scripts, requiring outer parentheses seems undesirable to me. But maybe you meant requiring them only when there's a same-line action present.

As for supporting break/return/continue on the same line as an if-statement, in my estimation the benefit is too small to justify the code size and development time.

I realize that decisions like this will displease a lot of people who like to write scripts in their own style. However, AHK isn't designed to please everyone -- I believe that even attempting to do so would be a losing battle that would do more harm than good in the long run.

Finally, a poll is always an option if you believe strongly that a certain alternate syntax should be supported even if it requires considerable development time and code size.