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by BeFlatXIII 987 days ago
I don't understand the appeal of pretty alignment of arguments with the last character of the function name in the row above. What's wrong with just using one more standard indentation level, like Black does in Python?
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Black uses more lines. PEP-8 is generally more compact.

I'm more than happy to let something like Black handle formatting for me, though. Sure, there are some occasions where my own formatting would have been better, but the benefits far outweigh the (very small) costs here.

The silly thing is with tools like Black etc. it should be possible to use tabs again. If the only reason against tabs is people fuck it up, there's really no reason to use spaces in an auto-formatted project.