Why I'm skeptical of auto-formatting

[Jesse Phillips]

On Thursday, 2 May 2019 at 23:26:47 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 May 2019 at 22:44:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> I know this is a minority opinion,
>
> No it's not, I'm in the same clique. I rather think that people 
> should write with discipline, i.e stick to a brace style, an 
> indent style etc. Then the text looks good but they can permit 
> themselves extravagances when required.

I like having the formatter available. I have been fun with the 
auto format in VS C#.

But I do not even care about consistency in where braces live. 
You can do terrible formats, other than that I don't care.