> I don't think it would work.  For people who don't use whitespace
> as syntax, whitespace is often used as a sort of documentation. Like
> things are aligned.  Serious breaks of indentation are done for a
> reason (I tend to use breaks to column 0 as a flag for debug/stubbed
> code, for example.) that cannot be recorded in the 'neutral' format.

If you didn't want the whitespace constraint...perhaps a
mechanism could be put in place to bypass it.... For example,
comments in Python begin with a '#'.  Comments are not bound
by any indentation rules.


> People will no doubt prefer to work in the 'neutral' format anyway,
> over time.  "What I see is what I have" is not an uncommon desire.

So what?  Let them.  Each to his own.  As long as all the code
works together in one big happy family.


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