I read Why I don't need brackets for loop and if statement, but I don't have enough reputation points to reply with a follow-up question.
I know it's bad practice, but I have been challenged to minimise the lines of code I use.
Can you do this in any version of C++?
a_loop()
if ( condition ) statement else statement
i.e. does the if/else block count as one "statement"?
Similarly, does if/else if.../else count as one "statement"? Though doing so would become totally unreadable.
The post I mentioned above, only says things like:
a_loop()
if(condition_1) statement_a; // is allowed.
Yes, syntactically you can do that.
if/else block is a selection-statement, which is a kind of statement.
N3337 6.4 Selection statements says:
selection-statement: if ( condition ) statement if ( condition ) statement else statement switch ( condition ) statement