[throw156754228]

I think in a nutshell you are saying a developer could accidentally hit tab one too many times. Just test against any visual regressions, it's not hard.

[lolinder]

"Just" don't do that is easy to say, but it's better to design the language to make it easy to catch mistakes.

The urge to remove delimiters is the lojban impulse [0] applied to programming languages. It's elegant and clean and impractical.

[0] https://mw.lojban.org/index.php

[throw156754228]

Read my message again, I'm not saying 'just don't do that'.

[lolinder]

"Just test against visual regressions" sounds to me like "just look twice at the code you indented". Did I misunderstand?

[throw156754228]

What I mean is this code should be tested like any other, using visual testing suites like playwright or cypress.

[lolinder]

Got it.

My opinion is that if your answer to a deficiency in the language's syntax is to just test harder you're missing something. Quick feedback loops are essential, and the quickest feedback loop at all is having a syntax where it's immediately obvious to the human looking at the code (before analysis is even run!) when there's a problem.

[throw156754228]

No not test harder. You should be testing anyway.