Whitespace as syntax is a somewhat controversial choice. Others will talk about missing semi-colon bugs or other delimiter-not-matching-whitespace bugs. Their counter "You only have to mis-indent an if relative to semi-colons once to be leery of that choice."

Most of the time (more often than Python), you can use parentheses if you really want. Getting everyone else on your team to stick to that formatting convention..maybe not so easy because, well, not everyone shares your opinion/values. :-)