I wonder if a 'whitespace separated values' format would make sense, assuming a) the separator is 'any run of whitespace except for a single space (ascii 32)' b

I wonder if a 'whitespace separated values' format would make sense, assuming a) the separator is 'any run of whitespace except for a single space (ascii 32)' b) all whitespace in values is folded to a single space (which covers 99.99% of CSV usage). This would make parsing trivial, visual formatting (e.g. alignment) possible, and escaping separators a non-issue.