[clug] Bad features of programming languages.

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Thu Apr 20 06:18:18 UTC 2023


On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 15:44 +1000, Kim Holburn via linux wrote:
> There are some things I don't like about python, but white space
> nesting is one of my favourite things.

The python problem is not white space nesting as such - formatting to
help emphasise structure is a good thing.

The problem is that in python, white space has syntactic meaning beyond
being a simple separator. That is batshit insane.

Regards, K.

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