Your logic is sound, although I can't really imagine anyone adopting this scheme. Actually, I would take it much further: Instead of code being stored as a pl

Your logic is sound, although I can't really imagine anyone adopting this scheme. Actually, I would take it much further: Instead of code being stored as a plain text file, store an abstract syntax tree in some binary form. Then all indentation, whitespace, keywords -- in fact, practically the entire syntax -- could be defined according to your preferences, while maintaining full interoperability with fellow developers. Of course this would require an editor/IDE specially designed to work this way, and a VCS that can diff the binary AST in a syntax-agnostic manner. This is what I'm currently working towards, as part of a programming language that is defined only by its semantics (the syntax itself is dynamic/extensible). Check back on me in about 10 years :)