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I don't know. I know that other IDEs have such functionality for other languages. I don't worry too much about the previous developer's style, because reformatting is a couple of simple keystrokes. As is reformatting it to another's standard.

I think it is a bit odd that anybody still has this argument.

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It's not a matter of forming the parens into another style -- that's a solved problem. The problem is that sticking to individual styles can hurt the adoption or contributions to a project.

I'd imagine the problem is more when two developers with different formatting preferences are working on the same project at the same time.

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