finding open and closed brackets is a massive chore in mis-copied code, so indeed having scope open by spaces makes things very clear and non-ambiguous. Using w

finding open and closed brackets is a massive chore in mis-copied code, so indeed having scope open by spaces makes things very clear and non-ambiguous. Using whitespace for readability and not using it for scope control is one of the many bugs in the design of programming languages like Java. In my very humble opinion.