I agree, and that's how I do things, but I still think the readability of generated code is important. I want to know what generated code is doing, and more of

I agree, and that's how I do things, but I still think the readability of generated code is important. I want to know what generated code is doing, and more often than I'd like, I run into problems with it, and need to trace through it to find out what's going on. Sometimes this just makes it easier to submit a thorough bug report (or even a patch) to the maintainer of the codegen tool, but often by tracing through what's going wrong I can find a way to work around the problem. Readability is definitely something I look for in generated code.