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Our team has recently inherited code which is extremely disorganized.
As a result, my team leader has decided to enforce a policy of auto-formating of code prior to saving a file. We have even found an option in Eclipse (The IDE of our choice) that auto-formats the code automatically before each save action.
Personally I am against it because I think that proper coding prevents messy code (most of the time) whereas auto-formating does not mean proper coding.
What are your opinions?
Auto-format the inherited code just once, and then proceed without auto-formatting.