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I guess you are not a great fan of Python. C was my first language, so I had the "significant white space" prejudice. The first time I tried it, I was hooked -

I guess you are not a great fan of Python. C was my first language, so I had the "significant white space" prejudice. The first time I tried it, I was hooked - because I hate code improperly indented. Yes, you can go the gofmt route in order to eliminate indentation wars, but I love languages where the syntax enforce it: it is a very pragmatic design (no need for explicit start/end of blocks, no ";" to mark the end of the statement). Strange enough, Nim enforces indentation but is very liberal with case sensitivity. Go figure... :-)

Symmetry 11y ago
I'd be violently allergic to the case insensitivity in a dynamically typed language where you could declare a variable with something like "foo = 1" but I'm fine with it in Nim. EDIT: s/sensitivity/insensitivity/
- masklinn 11y ago
  > I'd be violently allergic to the case sensitivity in a dynamically typed language where you could declare a variable with something like "foo = 1" but I'm fine with it in Nim. Do you mean "case insensivity"? AFAIK dynamic languages where you can do that are very much case-sensitive, Python and Ruby certainly are.
- scardine 11y ago
  You are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I agree, but my concern is not correctness, it is aesthetics. Why? Reading a computer program is often harder than writing it from scratch, so I like when languages enforce (or at least encourage) a name convention - just to keep it easier to read. Does Nim have something like PEP-8?
  - dom96 11y ago
    > Does Nim have something like PEP-8? https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Style-Guide-for-Nim-Code https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Style-Guide-for-Nim-Cod...
  - kungtotte 11y ago
    This is also why I don't mind/actively like significant whitespace. It doesn't matter for my own code because I already write it that way, but it enforces good indenting behavior on others who might otherwise forgo it.

Symmetry 11y ago

I'd be violently allergic to the case insensitivity in a dynamically typed language where you could declare a variable with something like "foo = 1" but I'm fine with it in Nim. EDIT: s/sensitivity/insensitivity/

masklinn 11y ago
> I'd be violently allergic to the case sensitivity in a dynamically typed language where you could declare a variable with something like "foo = 1" but I'm fine with it in Nim. Do you mean "case insensivity"? AFAIK dynamic languages where you can do that are very much case-sensitive, Python and Ruby certainly are.
scardine 11y ago
You are technically correct - the best kind of correct. I agree, but my concern is not correctness, it is aesthetics. Why? Reading a computer program is often harder than writing it from scratch, so I like when languages enforce (or at least encourage) a name convention - just to keep it easier to read. Does Nim have something like PEP-8?
- dom96 11y ago
  > Does Nim have something like PEP-8? https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Style-Guide-for-Nim-Code https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Style-Guide-for-Nim-Cod...
- kungtotte 11y ago
  This is also why I don't mind/actively like significant whitespace. It doesn't matter for my own code because I already write it that way, but it enforces good indenting behavior on others who might otherwise forgo it.