white space in expressions and argument lists

[Scott David Daniels]

Magnus Lycka wrote:
> .... Touching more lines of code than you actually need will
> both make it difficult for a reviewer to understand what
> has changed (although good diff tools can be told to
> ignore pure whitespace changes) ...
Such features have a nasty interaction with languages that use
significant whitespace; you might miss a re-blocking change while
suppressing the hassles from the extra "prettifying" spaces.

--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org