alt Hacker NewsI find brackets help me understand structure from a distance much better than whitespace.
Misplaced brackets seem like a thing from the past to me when we didn't have IDEs. I don't remember ever having a bug due to that.
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bazoom42 • today at 9:25 AM
So you would find bracketed code without any use of indentation easier to read than python?
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> I find brackets help me understand structure from a distance much better than whitespace.
I can't imagine how. Whitespace physically lays out the block structure on the screen; braces expect you to count and balance matching symbols, and possibly scan for them within other line noise.