Most of those rules suggested are too ridged can be accomplished by formatters hooked into an editor's save function or version control commit. I don't want my

Most of those rules suggested are too ridged can be accomplished by formatters hooked into an editor's save function or version control commit. I don't want my developers spending any more time on whitespace. Anything not solved by an automated process should certainly be on a case by case basis. If half a file has semi colon endings it's reasonable to request it be uniform for that file. The benefit to automated formatting is the style configuration can be swapped. if I HAVE to see altman brackets my editor can cook that format while my version control can hook whatever format the project requires.