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by conartist6 332 days ago
The war is ending though.

It will be over when we finally format code at read-time so that we respect the viewer's preferences, instead of at save-time to reflect the authors'.
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mjburgess 332 days ago
Vertical spacing, ideally, reflects the thought process behind the construction of code: it's semantic.

Read-time revisions to spacing need, only, to change the non-intentional elements of spacing -- indent depth is a very good candidate for this (hence the tab character!).

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Ferret7446 331 days ago
We already do format code at read-time if you use a decent editor/IDE. You can add smudge/clean filters to Git also.
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