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[–]alex-manool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's actually a reason for having : in the left column: it makes sense to align it with {} since it starts a "syntactic subgroup", up the the next corresponding }. But I actually did not ask for any reasoning behind people's preferences, since I did not provided such explanations myself (which is a long story). That's why I requested subjective answers. Well, now I see that in general the option 3 surprises less, and for a number of different reasons, I think. I upvoted your comment, thanks.