The strategy works perfectly fine for those examples.
public void severalParameters(String one, int two, String three,
StringObject four, AnotherObject five) {
// No problems here. It's just like my example.
// We're two levels of indentation in for these comments.
// The argument list continuation was at 1-level indentation with spaces for alignment
}
For these assignments, anything to the left is a semantic indentation (tabs), the rest is all alignment (spaces).
String text = "text";
int a = -1;
History.Entry entry = new History.Entry(text);
Sure, you can make it work. By point is just that you're introducing a burden making people remember which whitespace to use in which context. At that point you're forcing your devs to show non-printable characters in their editor to get it right. You devs are now spending their time checking whitespace instead of writing code, which is lost productivity.
As with any coding standard, the point of the rule is to eliminate such sources of lost productivity.
