[naasking]

> If it helps to make the program readable by humans then it can be shown as part of the rendering of the program on a screen, but again, that should be part of the work the computer does, not the human.

That means you and the compiler front-end are looking at different representations. Sounds doesn't sound like a good idea. Keep it stupid simple: all of our source control tools should work on the same representation, and it should be simpler and portable. Well defined syntax is a good choice here, even if there's some redundancy.

[lisper]

> doesn't sound like a good idea.

It isn't, but that ship sailed when cpp was invented.

> Keep it stupid simple

Could not agree more. That's why I use Lisp.

[naasking]

> It isn't, but that ship sailed when cpp was invented.

The fact that subsequent languages largely avoided that suggests that we can sometimes learn from our mistakes.