[ginko]

Adding significant whitespace to a new language feels like a bad choice. It's not terrible but I do think it was a bad call for Python in hindsight.

[cmoski]

Massive fail. I dread having to move code around my F# codebase.

[pasquinelli]

why do you think it was a bad choice?

[ginko]

It‘s a source of problems with mismatched tabs/spaces being used for indentation between team members for fairly little upside. Imo it also makes moving blocks of code more cumbersome.

[miffi]

Shrubbery, Rhombus's first-pass indentation-sensitive syntax, has a syntax form to facilitate copy-paste.

With guillemets, « and », you can make a section of Shrubbery code indentation-insensitive. The idea for copy-paste it to "armor" the section you want to copy with guillemets in the right places, and unarmoring it after posting.

This needs editor support to do fluidly, but imo it's much better than trying to copy-paste the indentation-sensitive syntax.

The Guillemets syntax is described here: <https://docs.racket-lang.org/shrubbery/group-and-block.html#...>

I can't tell from my 5 minutes of poking DrRacket whether it supports this "armoring", I've been writing Shrubbery in nvim, which, unsurprisingly, does not support it.