Is there any benefit to obsession with making code “look pretty”?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/90954
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02-11-2019 - |
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Sometimes I spend ridiculous amounts of time (hours) agonizing over making code "look pretty". I mean making things look symmetrical. I will actually rapidly scroll through an entire class to see if anything jumps out as not looking "pretty" or "clean".
Am I wasting my time? Is there any value in this kind of behavior? Sometimes the functionality or design of the code won't even change, I'll just re-structure it so it looks nicer.
Am I just being totally OCD or is there some benefit hidden in this?
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