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Formatting (Score:2)

by Ovid (2709)

Having this kind of discussion can easily become very unproductive and stupid if you just spew opinions.

Well, this part of the post I agree with 100% :)
At work, I've already told jplindstrom and others that I don't care what the source code formatting rules are, so long as they're consistent and automated. There's no way in hell I want to enforce them manually, but even if I don't like them, I'll follow them since most (reasonable) programmers have at least semi-coherent styles and when people start
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  by jplindstrom (594) on 2008.01.07 6:27 (#60017) Journal
  
  Yes, agreed. It's all about trade-offs, and when weighing consistency against arbitrary-layout-rule, consistency has a lot going for it.
  
  But sometimes you can get two out of two.
  
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