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I never got the point against meaningful whitespace. It's indentation. You already indent blocks anyway; the only difference is that you don't need braces or be

I never got the point against meaningful whitespace. It's indentation. You already indent blocks anyway; the only difference is that you don't need braces or begin/end. I also did not understand your point about "lack of whitespace" around blocks. The only difference between blocks in Python and other languages is that the block start uses a colon instead of an opening brace and you don't have a line for the closing brace. Is that closing line such a big deal for you?

alpaca128 4y ago
As someone who recently switched to opening curly brackets on new lines and did some Python coding last week I kind of agree - you either put in empty lines everywhere or you have a continuous block of code through all scopes. It's a matter of preference and you can still work with it of course, but I've learned to appreciate reducing code density. And regarding the syntax, using curly brackets like in C-like languages only takes one more symbol per scope and the difference in readability (where a scope ends etc.) is bigger for me. Also while indentation in Python kind of works as syntax it's not ideal as it can lead to literally invisible syntax errors, and imho the syntax isn't strict enough as Python allows you to have a different indentation width in every single scope. That said it's still a great language for little experiments. Similar to Bash, despite Bash being not the best designed language to put it mildly.