[PHP-DOC] Curly braces

[Neil Parks]

The following code appears in the PHP Manual to illustrate a "statement group""

<?php
if ($a > $b) {
    echo "a is bigger than b";
    $b = $a;
}
?>
Frankly, I get confused when curly braces fly all over the place.  If I have a series 
of nested control
structures and statement groups, it becomes very easy to mismatch the braces and 
create debugging
headaches.
I prefer to have my opening and closing braces in the same column.  For example:

<?php
if ($a > $b)
{
    echo "a is bigger than b";
    $b = $a;
}
?>
That makes them much easier to match up.

Is this syntax permissible?  If so, the documentation ought to say so explicitly.

Thank you.