Anyone who makes a language in which the performance of a call to previously processed code depends on its original whitespace should immediately be stripped of their CS degree, if they even have one.<p>If some decision depends on the size of a function, that size should be measured over the parsed code: number of nodes in the abstract syntax tree or whatever. This should be obvious to everyone by around the end of their second year of school. A function isn't larger if we give it wider indentation with more spaces, or replace its local variables with ones having longer names.