Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi>:
> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>> Yes, whoever came up with the idea of whitespace having syntactic
>> significance!
>
> How far do you want to go? [...]
>
> I prefer parentheses. They are not nearly as fragile.
*cough* braces *cough*
Seriously, though, I hate the optional semicolon rules of JavaScript and
Go. I dread the day when GvR gets it in his head to allow this syntax in
Python:
average_drop_rate = cumulative_drop_count /
observation_period
(although, it could be defined Pythonesquely thus: "a spurious
indentation means line continuation" — no more backslashes).
Marko
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