...have a Coding Standards document that says how you format your code, amongst other things.

If you go through and reformat code, things change. If you touch it, the risk of breaking it increases by 100%, compared to not touching it. And it's not just whitespace - changing brace style moves characters from one line to another - like :


void myfunc(char * thing)
{
....stuff();
}

vs

void myfunc(char * thing) {
....stuff();
}

(full stops substituted for spaces, which get eaten by the post parser thinger)

I can't speak for other companies, but not following the Coding Standards in our gaff is the software equivalent of coming to work whenever you like, wearing dirty underpants as a hat, eating fried fish at your desk, and peeing in a bucket in the corner of the office.

Point being: it's not just your code.