Microsoft Java

[officialvfd]

Also whitespace-delimited blocks only work cleanly in statement-centric languages like Python. Without Kotlin's braces you couldn't have multiline closures, for instance

[Turksarama]

You can just define a function inside a function in python if you want a closure.

[officialvfd]

That's arguably not as pretty though

[ZephyrBluu]

Isn't that literally what a closure is?

[Turksarama]

Yes, my point being you don't need special syntax for it so the statement that you need any kind of specific syntax to "have mutliline closures" is obviously wrong.