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by drobilla 5167 days ago
Significant whitespace in a live coding language? I like and use Python, but that seems like a show-stopper of a bad idea for a language designed for throwing code around in real time.
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Can you expand on this? If I get my indentation wrong then it will be obvious very quickly. I'm guessing that it will only update if the basic syntax is correct though.
> If I get my indentation wrong then it will be obvious very quickly

Not if the language allows you to mix tabs and spaces; in that case semantic details can be invisible.