> If nothing else, it causes diff pollution when the length of a line changes and you have to add or delete spaces to adjacent lines to keep things even, even t

> If nothing else, it causes diff pollution when the length of a line changes and you have to add or delete spaces to adjacent lines to keep things even, even though no semantic change to those lines has occurred. While I agree with this in general, I find making the code nicer to read to be more important that avoiding diff pollution. Especially when that diff pollution can be avoided with a simple "ignore whitespace" in most cases.