newlines are part of the syntax everywhere in Julia...  There's been a lot 
of discussion on another thread here about just this issue...
   if a
      +b > 10
      println("what happened!")
   end

vs.
   if a +
      b > 10
      println("very whitespace sensitive!")
   end



On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 1:16:19 AM UTC-4, Andreas Lobinger wrote:
>
> Hello colleague,
>
> On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 11:16:18 PM UTC+2, Scott Jones wrote:
>>
>> Not whitespace sensitive?  I thought julia was very whitespace 
>> sensitive... blanks and newlines can make a big difference...
>> Did you just mean that julia is not sensitive to the number of 
>> tabs/blanks (1 or more)
>>
>
> try python as an example of whitespace sensitivity...
> In julia you can move around code with whitespace very far until you get 
> complaints by the parser. Newlines seem to be a part of the syntax 
> somewhere, but without formal grammar that's hard to test.
>

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