It's less ridiculous than fighting over this stuff in code review. It's usually teams or projects agreeing on a coding standard, and those standards dictate ev

It's less ridiculous than fighting over this stuff in code review. It's usually teams or projects agreeing on a coding standard, and those standards dictate everything other trivial detail. As a developer, you are an author, and you're writing with a "voice." On a team, it's a courtesy to the reader to write with the team's voice rather than your own.