To be sure, I can't read Melody's style at all. I associate that code style with idiots who just keep jamming random code in until something happens ...

I am forever reformatting other peoples SQL code (or generated SQL). I have may own format rules, and once I get it in that format I can read it easy. Unformatted, I can't make nor tail of it.

I agree with Harry here, but I think a lot of developers, including maybe even Harry, are missing the point. Programming code is not there to suit the computer, or the compiler, or the run-time engine. If it was, we would do everything in machine code, or p-code, or whatever. Code is there to be read by PEOPLE. Anything that obscures that intent is, basically, just pretentious BS. Why should I have to stop and ponder your code for even 3 seconds? Every time I see that line?