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Re:Clear is better than clever [pdf] by atq2119 on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:45PM (#19841877)
No. This kind of alignment is basically always a mistake and hurts software maintainability in the long run.

The problem is that if one of the conditions changes, for example due to a variable renaming, you likely have to change the alignment on all lines.

Aside from being very tedious even if you're a lone coder, this creates noise in diffs that makes automatic merges fail much more frequently.

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