The closest thing to an excuse I would accept (and I wouldn't accept it, it's just the closest) is that some people are taught that it's a virtue to preserve the style of any existing code that you're going in to modify. I can understand why this is desirable. But it presupposes that the existing code is of a certain minimal level of quality, and that you should put aside your own *aesthetics* for the sake of cohesiveness and regularity in the code base. I would contend that we should consider MOVE* a bug, not merely a style we disagree with. It should be classified under "if this works, it's only an accident, and we've been lucky so far".
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