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I went from not being able to tell the difference to being deeply disturbed by everything in the red

Just run with the default style of the de-facto formatter for whatever language you are using. It's really not worth any mental effort.
- This is true, but it also moves the discussion to which is the superior code for matter for languages that don't have a clear default option, and of course to which languages have the best formatters.
  I have a hard stance in this question - code formatters should be deterministic on any given syntax tree - there should be no leeway for choosing how any given piece of code formats. Seriously. If your anti-bikeshedding tool does not completely eliminate the bikeshedding, you have not done your job correctly.
- But it's fun to argue over

Ew. I usually don't use curly braced languages. But whenever I need to define collections on multiple lines I always put opening bracket on the end of the line and closing bracket on the same indent level as the start of the statement:
Nim

let hello = [ "Hello, there!", ] var a = true arr = [ "line 1", "line 2", ]

What is Lisp style, Lisp doesn't have this syntax? Or is it referring to something other than Lisp languages. Same with Haskell.
- Haven't coded with Lisp, but I've seen Lisp codes that are formatted like that. Haskell too.

Can we talk about variable scope? Is x changing inside a called function without so much as a pointer being passed?
- Avoiding global variables is just something dumb people do to protect themselves. Real programmers declare every variable before Main.

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