[mikestew]

And those same ones commit stuff like the LoC I'm looking at right now that returns the results of a ternary, and there's a fucking bang symbol in front of every boolean, topped off with a bang preceding the parens around that ternary (IOW, some of those bangs should cancel out, and aren't needed). I ask myself, "how did this escape code review?" and the answer is probably that the senior dev who wrote it thumped the junior dev reviewing it with something along the lines of "that's how real Java devs do it", or something. I dunno, just guessing based on personalities. Same dev that self-admits he hasn't written unit tests before, yet argues with me (who has written thousands) about how to write unit tests.

Though I wonder if what you describe isn't just plain ol' bike shedding. I've seen it plenty in code reviews. Super sharp dev who generally writes great code puts a commit up for review, and someone feels like they ought to have some input, and because the code is otherwise solid they pick on grammar.