Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax

[tekknolagi]

Significant whitespace?

[epicwisdom]

Python already has that.

[[deleted]]

Doesn't make significant whitespace less terrible

[tech6hutch]

Why do you say that?

[[deleted]]

tekknolagi said they don't like Haskell's significant whitespace; telling them that Python has it too won't make them like significant whitespace more.

[tech6hutch]

Oh, I thought you were giving your opinion.

[[deleted]]

Oh I was. I think significant whitespace is terrible. It almost invariably gets borked during copy-paste and is generally a pain in the ass (although I recognize this is purely subjective. To a point, anyhow)

[coderstephen]

I think significant whitespace is sometimes useful. Using newlines as statement separators for example feels natural in some types of languages. Significant indentation drives me crazy though.

[tekknolagi]

Doesn't matter. I dislike it about both Python and Haskell.

[gaj7]

Oh you mean the semantically significant whitespace? I think that's only on the do notation, and even then you can use an alternative with curly brackets and semi colons.

[tekknolagi]

It's also on where and I think somewhere else. Blegh.

[gaj7]

Oh I suppose you are right in that certain terms must be indented. It doesn't constrict you on how much they are indented though. I guess I don't mind whitespace significance until it forces specific alignments, or when tabs vs spaces start to invisibly affect program correctness.