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by prirun 1314 days ago
For original code, might work. But if I'm making a bug fix to someone else's code, which is going to be most of the time in this situation, I'd try to adhere to the style of code that is already there. If it's shitty or I disagree with it, I'm not going to reformat the code and rename all the variables to do a bug fix. A: there's too much risk of me making a mistake and breaking something that works; B: I wasn't asked to reformat/restyle the code; C: what I prefer probably doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things