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tyreyesterday at 8:21 PM5 repliesview on HN

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


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BeetleByesterday at 9:06 PM

To weed out programmers who don't indent.

syrrimyesterday at 9:00 PM

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

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grim_ioyesterday at 10:20 PM

I never understood this.

What kind of special whitespace requirements do people have?

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mplewisyesterday at 8:28 PM

It's really not that bad