Oh, yes, you absolutely can use character punctuated languages to express flow and intention , even more so than whitespace punctuation. And the people that do

Oh, yes, you absolutely can use character punctuated languages to express flow and intention , even more so than whitespace punctuation. And the people that do that well are artists of their craft. The problem is that many people seem to be unaware of code morphology as expressive documentation. To a degree, whitespace punctuation enforces expressive morphology and encourages thought in that direction. It’s like the syntax we deserve, not the syntax we want lol.