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Why do we put spaces after punctuation in English?It's completely redundant.actually,why even put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence?it can obvious
by sltkr 3y ago
Why do we put spaces after punctuation in English?It's completely redundant.actually,why even put a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence?it can obviously be inferred.
OK, I'll stop now, but the point is: matching braces provide visual structure that's helpful to read code, even if it's syntactically redundant.
- sph 3y agoProse is not a programming language, isn't it obvious? One is designed for machines to parse unambiguously, the other has grown organically and chaotically over hundreds of years. Machine parsing has never been a design concern.
- frodowtf 3y agoIndentation provides visual structure. Matching braces hardly add value to it.