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While this looks awesome, I still wondering why not write in an indentation-based syntax and compile the code, just like how we are using CoffeeScript? https://

• brudgers 11y ago
  One reason, reasonable or not, is that indentation based syntax overloads white space in ways that muddle it's use for communicating with humans with it's use for communicating with machines. I have some sympathy for the argument (though it may be misplaced) because my gut suggests that the more a language relies on whitespace, the more human communication via formatting (such as reducing line lengths) becomes a corner case requiring special syntax and using that special syntax induces cognitive load when reading and writing the code. That's not to say that for a Domain Specific language like HAML, the whitespace approach isn't useful. But that's down closer to declarative programming than trying to wire up a control flow. YMMV.
• boxed 11y ago
  You'll never convince lisp people that it's a good idea though.