Some languages do have more-or-less canonical formatting styles. The Lisp family comes to mind, as do ML and Haskell. You see far fewer arguments about format

Some languages do have more-or-less canonical formatting styles. The Lisp family comes to mind, as do ML and Haskell. You see far fewer arguments about formatting there, partly because there's very widely-accepted style, and partly because nobody cares to argue about the few things that don't have established canon.