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tyre 2 hours ago

Oh nooooo, they fucked it up too. Why would someone make a language that’s whitespace sensitive? It’s confounding.

BeetleB 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To weed out programmers who don't indent.

grim_io 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I never understood this.

What kind of special whitespace requirements do people have?

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syrrim 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would someone make a language where the programmer and the interpreter have two different ways of figuring out where blocks start and end?

ioasuncvinvaer an hour ago | parent [-]

at the closing curly?

syrrim an hour ago | parent [-]

Programmers look at the indentation.

larodi 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

this discussion is so dated...

syrrim 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

llms prefer indents too

mplewis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's really not that bad