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Personally, I've always found code with a "table structure" prettier but less readable in practice. It's also fussy and time-consuming to maintain. I favor information density and flow.

As with what @Flenser said above, formatting code with "table" structure can result in a non-whitespace change on one line causing you to reformat the whitespace on unrelated lines, thus muddying your commit log.

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