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mclucklast Sunday at 6:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

For what it's worth, I love the semantics of many indentation based languages (F# for example) but really dislike editing them. Visually scanning is much easier with braces (imo) and it's much easier to navigate braced languages when using a vim-like editor


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teifererlast Sunday at 9:19 PM

For somebody unable to empathize with the "braces are easier to scan" part, could yiu explain why?

I find it easy to see if things are on the same indentation. I find it much harder to visually scan for opening and closing braces unless syntax highliting makes them scream at me or they are accompanied by ...indentation.

throw234234234last Monday at 3:49 AM

I suspect this is a "what you are used to" and have trained yourself to look out for over many years of code reading.