[mixmastamyk]

Yes, we indent code for readability sake. If you don't, that would be incompetent. Which makes the braces redundant at best, noise at worst.

Their lack in Python bothered me too, one afternoon in the spring of 2001, then I moved on.

When I hear someone complaining about it I immediately think, this person hasn't much experience with Python, or is one of those highly inflexible pedant types.

[jaxtellerSoA]

>Which makes the braces redundant at best, noise at worst.

YES!! Every time I try something other than Python that requires braces, I am like "WTF, why do I have to type this extra shit! Such an annoyance."

[peatmoss]

Arguably the lisp family contains the “huggiest” use of characters, but something like Paredit turns those parentheses into something of a turbo-charged way of handling code forms.

But it leads to another problem: hatred of typing commas in non-lisps.