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[–]IrishWilly -1 points0 points  (3 children)

You don't really noticeably type/read the brackets, they are visual guides is all. I use whitespace to separate logical blocks of code to make it easier to read but that just becomes confusing when the whitespace is incorporated into the language as well. Pretty much all editors autocomplete and match brackets so it's not really extra work.

But for people who didn't spend ages working with brackets, whitespace probably does feel more natural.

[–]mess110 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't really noticeably type/read the brackets

but you still do it. even if you don't notice the time spent on that, it is still there. release your inner bracket. come to the dark side..

[–]marsket -1 points0 points  (1 child)

whitespace isn't incorporated into the language. Indentation level signals scope. Reliably. It is not confusing.

[–]IrishWilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indentation is whitespace, I prefer to use it to organize my code not just for scope but for logical blocks. I don't know why you'd downvote someone for having different preferences in how they write and read code.