Why I'm skeptical of auto-formatting

[Atila Neves]

On Thursday, 2 May 2019 at 22:44:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I know this is a minority opinion, and in fact even I myself 
> would regard the following as an exceptional case rather than 
> the norm, but the following unittest from one of my projects, 
> quoted verbatim, is one reason why I'm skeptical of applying 
> code auto-formatting indiscriminately:
>
> [...]

As others have mentioned, one can turn autoformatting off or 
tweak it where needed. Even LaTeX allows one to modify the 
default behaviour so things look as the author intended them.