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I love tabular code.

This

  defp decode(addr_t(:ind), _dest, data) do
    case data do
      <<0::6, data::bits>>            -> {:t_data_ind, nil, data}
      <<0b01::2, seq::4, data::bits>> -> {:t_data_con, seq, data}
      <<0b1000_0000::8>>              -> {:t_connect, nil, <<>>}
      <<0b1000_0001::8>>              -> {:t_discon, nil, <<>>}
      <<0b11::2, seq::4, 0b10::2>>    -> {:t_ack, seq, <<>>}
      <<0b11::2, seq::4, 0b11::2>>    -> {:t_nak, seq, <<>>}
      _                               -> {:error, :invalid_tpci}
    end
  end

for me, is just way more readable than


  defp decode(addr_t(:ind), _dest, data) do
    case data do
      <<0::6, data::bits>> -> {:t_data_ind, nil, data}
      <<0b01::2, seq::4, data::bits>> -> {:t_data_con, seq, data}
      <<0b1000_0000::8>> -> {:t_connect, nil, <<>>}
      <<0b1000_0001::8>> -> {:t_discon, nil, <<>>}
      <<0b11::2, seq::4, 0b10::2>> -> {:t_ack, seq, <<>>}
      <<0b11::2, seq::4, 0b11::2>> -> {:t_nak, seq, <<>>}
      _ -> {:error, :invalid_tpci}
    end
  end

but I know, that most people don’t like it, so it will never be possible to format Elixir-code like that. And that is a good thing. It’s important to have a common code style everyone can read. So I keep formatting my C files in crazy ways, because in C, everybody complains about your style anyway and there will never be any agreement.

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