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I don't think making code written by hacks look like code written by a competent programmer is a good thing.

Making the code more clear to read helps its quality come through. Or its lack thereof.

Nothing stops a reviewer from reformatting the code before reading it (probably using an autoformatter).

But I'm not sure if making the code easier -- and thus faster -- to read is necessarily a good thing. If the brain parses and analyzes the code in parallel, making it harder to parse could give the analyzing process more time and thus make the review more thorough.

Of course, nothing stops a reviewer from being thorough either way. But making it the path of least resistance makes it more likely.

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