+1 for significant whitespace instead of braces. But as others said, ain't 
gonna happen... :(

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> On 20 Dec 2015, at 02:39, Alexander Regueiro via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone considered removing braces from the Swift language? The main 
> alternative would be indentation-based scoping like in Python or Ruby. There 
> already seems to be a general emphasis on conciseness,  lack of redundancy, 
> and a modern syntax. e.g. semicolons are not required for single-line 
> statements; brackets have been removed from if/for/while expressions, 
> compared to C-style syntax. So, why not go the whole way in breaking the 
> C-style connection? The present syntax seems to be shunning C, but only 
> slightly.
> 
> Thoughts?
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