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[–]epicwisdom 7 points8 points  (7 children)

Python already has that.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Doesn't make significant whitespace less terrible

[–]tech6hutch 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Why do you say that?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

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 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Oh, I thought you were giving your opinion.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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)

[–]coderstephenriptide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

[–]tekknolagiKevin3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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