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by neurotrace 2583 days ago
Stuff like this is why I've become a huge advocate for automatic formatting tools. If you can set rules for naming conventions, line breaks, etc. then it significantly cuts down on the minutia arguments.

It doesn't fix everything, of course. Someone can still argue about using too many assertions or comments but it at least helps. If someone makes an argument about formatting then you can just say "well, Tool X formatted it this way so this is how it will be. If we think that should change in the future then let's open a different issue and discuss that."