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by Terr_ 45 days ago
I find a lot of these conflicts I can't resolve when everybody agrees that the pain of ugly/unnecessary diffs is greater than the pain of minor formatting disagreements.
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its because some people learned to put meaning into different ways to layout dense expressions, or different kinds of comments in difference contexts.

python was "weird" at first to C-tribe, because of the strict layout used to eliminate some of the syntax tokens. These stories come from a time before "order over all" in some factory code base was seen as Universally a virtue of some kind