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by rixed 1 hour ago
I'm the opposite: when landing in a programming language site I want to know the user case the authors had in mind, the memory model, the type system, the compilation targets, the data layout, the control structures, and only at the end just check that the syntax is not indentation based.
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So I'm very seriously considering making my language indentation based. You're saying you wouldn't like that?
No indeed I'm not a fan. I find it brittle and arbitrary for data values especially; that also makes automatic code generation and edition harder, for no good reason. But that's not an important consideration either way.
I think this falls under "[wanting] to know the user case the authors had in mind"
There is no "user case", it's called use case.
> There is no "user case", it's called use case.

Perhaps English is not a native language for zlsa?

That seems to be what he just said.