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Is there any harm in dispensing with spaces around = marks apart from readability ?

Putting -- or not putting -- whitespace around most operators is largely a matter of taste. (One must put whitespace around operators like or, gt, etc). Putting whitespace within operators is a bad idea; =~ is one operator; = ~ is two. If your editor does stuff like adding spaces where they don't belong, I'd suggest a new one.

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