[MichaelDickens]

Yes. I'm concerned here that if a language makes something optional, some users will want to do it one way and some will do it another way, leading to inconsistent code bases. Some languages (Ruby, Haskell) prefer to let programmers decide how they do things, while others (Python) only provide one way of doing things. A lot of people disagree about which is better, but the decision to leave design open to users is itself a design decision.

[rfratto]

Any options I had planned for the language were going to be per-project settings, so at least the coding style in any given project would be consistent.