Am 22.03.2014 17:14, schrieb Brian Rogoff:
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 13:03:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
ALGOL60 did not have significant whitespace and an offside rule, just
like C, C++ and D don't, whereas Python, OCaml, etc. do.
I've programmed in OCaml for many years and I somehow missed the
significant whitespace. Even the Revised syntax for OCaml (the improved
and unused one) did not use significant whitespace, though I recall that
there were unloved projects to provide such a syntax.
When F# was still in beta, it had OCaml syntax as default with a
significant whitespace mode that could be turned on with a compiler
directive "#light on".
While asking the embryonic F# community which mode should be the default.
The significant whitespace mode won and became the default, with the
OCaml mode being the optional one.
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Paulo
