Comment by wredcoll

I'm not sure if I disagree with you or not, but this argument isn't very convincing.

> Consistent with what? As according to whom? For what purpose?

Consistent with.. itself! According to.. the people working on it! For the purpose of making it easier to read/write/understand!

Like, I'm willing to entertain arguments that it doesn't actually accomplish this, but these are questions with pretty obvious answers.

A lot of this conversation depends on the definition of "Style" we're using though.

I assumed it meant things like tabs/spaces/bracket placement/semicolon usage and so forth.

If you meant something much higher level, like, dunno, object orientation or what not, then that's an entirely different conversation.

As a side note, as long as we depend on extremely literal character by character diffing algorithms in order to display changes, code formatting is going to have some definite implications.