Meticulously lining code up like ASCII art seems like an antipattern to me nowadays. It might make some regions of the code look a little bit nicer, but it's never really strictly necessary and it comes at the cost of higher maintenance - for example, add to that list of assignments with lined up equals signs and you have to make your addition line up too, and if your variable name is longer than the longest one in the list so far you have to move all the previous ones over.