> I used to agree with that, until I read this article. I would always use the IDE's default and "not care" as long as the code was consistent. The problem is

> I used to agree with that, until I read this article. I would always use the IDE's default and "not care" as long as the code was consistent. The problem is that everyone touching the project can and often does have different defaults. If you work on a professional setting, specially in legacy projects, you are bound to touch files where your changes comprise mainly of whitespace changes.