Code is clearest when each statement has its own line. Nonetheless, it is a common pattern to combine on the same line an `if` and its resulting then statement. However, when an `if` is placed on the same line as the closing `}` from a preceding `else` or `else if`, it is either an error - `else` is missing - or the invitation to a future error as maintainers fail to understand that the two statements are unconnected.

## Noncompliant Code Example

    if (condition1) {
      // ...
    } if (condition2) {  // Noncompliant
      //...
    }

## Compliant Solution

    if (condition1) {
      // ...
    } else if (condition2) {
      //...
    }

Or

    if (condition1) {
      // ...
    }

    if (condition2) {
      //...
    }