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After writing code for 20+ years these sorts of concerns are just tiresome. The effort expended debating and enforcing optimizations like this completely wipes out any and all benefits they bring, which is incredibly minimal to begin with.

Just read the code, write your change, move on. If you find yourself missing small details like this you need to just slow down a tiny bit. Its not hard. By all means format your code cleanly, just don't spend cycles writing blog posts about it.



Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is the only mature, reasonable answer. This is a frivolous complaint, that would upend the SQL grammar, because someone blogged about being mildly inconvenienced. I _wish_ I had tiny, nitpicky problems like this, but my problems are actually substantial.




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