Maybe nobody cares, but visually identifying a token and comprehending its meaning are still distinct steps. What I'm trying to say is that visual identificatio

Maybe nobody cares, but visually identifying a token and comprehending its meaning are still distinct steps. What I'm trying to say is that visual identification - the thing that syntax is responsible for - is the easy part, and the latter is so much harder that the former almost doesn't count. It's not that I think syntax doesn't matter at all. It does, in some context it matters a lot - just not because of readability. And most definitely not because it looks pretty or ugly.