[jacquesm]

Ask your revision control system what it thinks about that and your teammates when you submit a 500 line diff for review when a 10 liner would suffice. That's only marginally better than someone checking in a diff when their editor converted tabs to spaces or vv.

Whitespace edits are the code equivalence of wikipedia formatting changes to increase the number of articles you've worked on without actually contributing anything.

Also, if you think that is easier to read you are actually setting yourself up by being deceived by formatting because you'll be skipping bits based on assuming you know what they say. Those are hard lessons to learn but the best way to understand a new piece of code that you're reading is not to read it like a book but like a machine, with a pencil and a notepad tracing the values of the variables as you execute the code in your head (or on the paper if it gets complex). You don't need to run the whole program that way, just the sections that you feel are hard to understand.