and the reason why we aren’t going to endorse “ali...

# codingconventions

[yole]

and the reason why we aren’t going to endorse “align fields in columns” in the official style guide is exactly what @egorand says: one of the guiding principles of the official style guide is to avoid whitespace changes induced by changing the length of identifiers as much as possible

[hudsonb]

I dislike that style too. Surprised there's an "Align 'when' branches in columns" option.