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I'm curious why this was written as a checker instead of something that actually fixed the problems instead of whining at a human to do so?

Automation to me is the editor making it all right with minimal human thought or micro-management. For Eclipse and Java, it has a Format Source menu as well as being able to trigger that on a save, so it all just works.

With Objective C, Xcode is no help beyond some crude indenting. I bought a copy of Jetbrains' AppCode with their similar source formatting functionality being a major reason. The usual tools like indent don't support Objective C, and the two free tools I found were far too painful.

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