Encoding meaning in whitespace not only makes it difficult to verify correctness by eye (for nontrivial cases), but also is very fragile. You're lucky if it su

Encoding meaning in whitespace not only makes it difficult to verify correctness by eye (for nontrivial cases), but also is very fragile. You're lucky if it survives a cut and paste across tools. Almost every tool ever written treats whitespace as formatting, not meaningful content, and many tools therefore assume that "fixing" whitespace will improve readability.