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A human ever thinking about where to break a line is bad. Let the computers do that, in one standard way for a project, and never think or talk about it again. The amount of time people have wasted on trivia like this over the decades is astronomical. It doesn't matter what the answer is, pick one, make it automatic, and move on.


Yeah I'm always delighted to use clang-format rather than worry about where I should put the brackets.

Code style is the epitome of bikeshedding. Anything consistent is fine, and using a tool to automate that is a huge productivity win.


Both things are true. It's worth arguing about so infrequently it's never worth thinking about whether it's worth arguing about, let alone argue about; but automated tools still make decisions far worse than any human would make sometimes.




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