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Personally, it's not a significant issue, but it is a preference. Do you indent code when coding with braces? How anal are you about keeping your code formatted consistently (i.e. spaces after operators)?



Sometimes, not always. I'm likely to put a one-line getter/setter on one line.

I use formatter tools to do most of the formatting. It's nice to have formatted code, but I'm not fastidious about it. It's bound to Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D in Visual Studio. I prefix it to Ctrl+S out of habit. But if the automatic formatter can't take care of it, I don't bother changing anything. Simplicity and consistency are more important than "having my way".

Code should be readable, which is a human issue. As such, I think it's always going to have edge cases where "breaking the rules" is appropriate.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I often use the formatting as a pre-check before compiling. If the formatter doesn't format the code as I expect it to, it means I've screwed up a block somewhere. That's pretty much it for me.


This is 100% a non-issue in go. gofmt will automatically make all of your code look just like how everyone else writes it.

In addition most editors have plugins for automatic gofmt on save.




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