I just read that dom prefers "I want a vote" or "I don't want a vote", but 
actually I don't really care about the style insensitivity either way. I think 
many people who dislike it do so largely because they think of it as "impure" 
for people to have to care about style sensitivity (e. g. you are a noob if you 
were to rely on case sensitivity, such as PHP).

I myself do not see it that way simply because I actually think that the issue 
is between the human being, and the parser/lexer. So if it is not necessary, 
why should the parser care?

I give you another example. Python mandates () for methods; in ruby the () are 
optional unless something is ambigous. I prefer the ruby way. Why? First, you 
can use the () anyway in ruby so you get the same as in python, except for in 
python they are MANDATORY. And I really hate mandatory syntax rules that 
restrict me in how I operate. It is for a similar reason I hate python's 
mandatory indent, since I can not copy/paste into the interactive python.

This is why I think the style insensitivity is not really an issue save for 
people who think about "purity" of a language. But I don't really care either 
way enough to even want a vote, or not want a vote. There are so many other 
things to improve!

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