alt Hacker NewsIt's not. Your eyes can deceive you by guessing the correct indentation. Indentation should never be used for grammar separation. Explicit characters such as } ] ) are clearer and unambiguous.
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bmandale • yesterday at 10:13 PM
Clearer for the computer, but not for the human. Many errors, some severe, have been caused by a human only looking at the indentation and not realizing the braces don't match.
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IMO, that is the only acceptable situation where semicolons can be removed from the language... if you need to add indentation rules, you've failed.