> I'm afraid I'm parked close to the latter camp; perhaps I've been a
> non-non-programmer for too many decades. My problem is simply that, as
> someone who is used to manipulating or generating program source with
> various tools, I'd like to have the option of generating, or searching for,
> actual tokens that mean 'begin-block', 'end-block', etc.. In python, these
> tokens are various context-dependent quantities of white space, which
> makes manipulating or automatically generating python source code noticeably
> more awkward.
>
> Note that I don't object to the idea of indentation being meaningful, only
> to the idea that there should be no alternative non-indentation syntaxes.
Well, we thought of that for Haskell. The '{', ';', '}'
syntax can be explicitly included precisely so that
mechanical generation is straightforward.
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