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nchammastoday at 2:53 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't understand this concern. How exactly are you copy/pasting code such that significant indentation causes "real problems"?

I remember the creators of Go explained [1] that they chose explicit block delimiters because of problems they saw when embedding snippets of Python in other languages. But this seems like a very niche kind of problem.

[1]: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#:~:text=we%20have%2...


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bobajefftoday at 7:43 PM

Scope being determined by indention makes it easier to paste things in the wrong scope and not notice.