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I am definitely not a fan of that style. Wastes too much vertical space without much benefit.

The benefit is how quickly an experienced programmer can accurately isolate portions of logic and understand / mutate them.

It also achieves that in monochrome, which is likely to be the case when an SQL query is in a shell script's <<< HEREDOC or in a string blob in a log file or source code for another language's compiler.

What would you change?

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