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Imo, just sounds like someone mad that others can't recognize their "style" when reading code that's been through a formatter.

Code is not just for style. You get no points for fancy spacing. You get no money for having being a "that guy who likes to format his args weirdly".




If style didn't matter at all, we'd be writing assembly or bytecode. But we don't, because code is written for humans most importantly. Reducing the code down to basically the AST makes it lose important semantic meaning; which defeats the purpose of high-level languages.




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