It makes it easier for me to read your code when I checkout a copy: there's not a bunch of unused cruft I have to mentally skip over to look at it. You'll be

It makes it easier for me to read your code when I checkout a copy: there's not a bunch of unused cruft I have to mentally skip over to look at it. You'll be glad later that I'm not leaving a bunch of left over Rob's stupid crap (TM) that you have to wade through as well :-) It's not just imports, assigned-but-not-used is also a failure. This keeps the cruft down.