> Just from a teaching perspective. I help tutor for CS100 at my university and a large part of the errors I have to deal with are whitespace errors. People don

> Just from a teaching perspective. I help tutor for CS100 at my university and a large part of the errors I have to deal with are whitespace errors. People don't understand where a block starts and ends. On the flip side, when I was in school and a peer asked me to look over their code, it was usually an unindented mess and they still very much had no idea "where a block starts and ends" despite the braces. When Python was introduced, I was hopeful that a technical demand that indentation be done properly might actually help, pedagogically. On reflection, imposing this at linting with a brace-based would probably be better still, as the error messages could be substantially better targeted.