alt Hacker NewsHaskell, Lean, and Agda too. But even if Python were the only one, it wouldn't be weird to someone for whom this was their first programming language. It would just seem the way programming languages are. There's nothing intrinsically weird about indentation being significant. It's quite visibly part of the code you write and read.
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YuechenLi • today at 3:02 AM
Hmm. Learned something new today. Thanks.
> There's nothing intrinsically weird about indentation being significant. It's quite visibly part of the code you write and read.
The idea is fine, I guess, although I certainly don't care for it. Where it gets most nasty is that whitespace that looks the same (in your editor) might not be equal and will cause you pain.