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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
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John McCue <jmccue@reddwf.jmcunx.com> writes:

> FWIW, people really should learn to use indent(1), will help
> with many of these arguments :)  [...]

My experience with source code formatters is they always do too
much, throwing away important information.  Another problem is
limited flexibility - even the enormous set of configuration
parameters doesn't cover styles outside of a rather limited set
of choices.