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by skylurk 333 days ago
Meanwhile, I'm trying to get away from languages where whitespace has semantics.
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PaulDavisThe1st 333 days ago
It's not about semantics at all. whitespace has (virtually) no semantics in C or C++, but there are few programmers who would feel comfortable reading such code without the suggestive hinting that indentation provides.
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pepa65 332 days ago
Very few where you can delete or insert whitespace at will, (even if only in the middle of 'identifiers').

I am fine with a (single) space being an important part of syntax, just don't use more than 1 please.

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