Oh well, I have coded more than a million lines of code in more than a dozens of programming languages. I have been teaching Pascal/C++ for more than 3 decades at a university.
So one develops one's own style. And it's just a matter of style. I can remember only very few places where white space is significant like between two characters of a composite operator like != But I have never encounter a language where a space in front of the calling operator is significant. And even worse, it is not flagged as a syntax error but seems to have a totally different semantic meaning. So, what is the semantic of such a construct. So, it wouldn't hurt if such critical misplacements of white space would produce a warning at least.
