I heard the same complaints about indentation for scope, 20 or 25 years ago, and yet it seems to have worked out OK for them. It's interesting how many of thes

I heard the same complaints about indentation for scope, 20 or 25 years ago, and yet it seems to have worked out OK for them. It's interesting how many of these rules we know to be true, aren't. I for one am tired of programming languages trying to eke out the best ASCII art they can manage with the symbols that happened to end up on American keyboards by historical accident. Or wanting to look 97% the same as ANSI C, even though their semantics are completely different. For the people who really cannot type anything but US-ASCII on their DEC VT100 terminals, and don't use an editor or operating system which allows them to compose other characters, there are still ASCII combinations that look more or less like a left-arrow, and which are invalid Python syntax today.