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by nunobrito 285 days ago
Oh man.. that comment really hit deep. I'll never understand why people argue that it is "easier" to adopt invisible characters and exact tab positioning instead of just using braces or similar to mark the code blocks.

Drives me nuts because you really can only write code for those programs with an IDE that is prepared for the case. Try to edit the code directly from the github web interface and it won't compile.
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pyrale 285 days ago
Whoops, my initial intent was "without curly braces", since that's where most of the readability comments are from. I guess the comment works both ways, though.

> Drives me nuts because you really can only write code for those programs with an IDE that is prepared for the case.

Usually people have strict rules for that (e.g. pep8), and most text editors will do it for you with little configuration.

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