Is phobos too fluffy?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/19/20 9:00 AM, data pulverizer wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 15:51:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> As wc -l counts, phobos has some 330 KLOC:
>>
>> $ wc -l $(git ls-files '*.d') | tail -1
>>   331378 total
>>
>> I noticed many contributors are fond of inserting empty lines 
>> discretionarily, sometimes even in the middle of 2-5 line functions, 
>> or right after opening an "if" statement. The total number of empty 
>> lines:
>>
>> $ git grep '^$' $(git ls-files '*.d') | wc -l
>>    38503
>>
>> So Phobos has 11.62% empty lines in it [...]
> 
> At the risk of starting WW3, I'd like to propose using 2 space code 
> indent over 4 spaces or tabs. Indents just don't need that much space.

Jesting aside, that would actually increase average complexity of the 
code because it would allow people to nest more.