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PSR-2 isn't trying to say that there is one correct answer. Instead they're trying to provide a single answer from the many valid possibilities.

"When various authors collaborate across multiple projects, it helps to have one set of guidelines to be used among all those projects"

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I'm not saying it shouldn't exist; I'm saying it shouldn't be recommended at all as part of "PHP The Right Way". It mixes up arbitrary personal preferences with universal best practices.

Exactly, this is what infuriates me about the arguments and whining against PSR-2.

Spaces, Tabs, OTBS, whatever. It doesn't matter which one was chosen, just that something was chosen. Ask the Pythonista's what PEP8 did for their developer's ecosystem.

Also it's important to note that that PSR-2 was based off already existing coding standards like Zend's and Symfony's.

And what do you do with all the coders like me who would refuse to change their habits? Does the Python community have tabs holdouts who are github lepers because no one wants their code "infected"? (I don't do much in Python, I actually don't know what the community norms are.)

I think it's silly to pursue per-language consistency; it's a pipe-dream that just leads to more religious wars over minutia. Per-project (or per-organization) more than suffices.

>And what do you do with all the coders like me who would refuse to change their habits?

Reformat their code.

As for "per language consistency", Go does it just fine...

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