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Personally, I think using invisible, editor dependent characters is neither simple nor regular.

• agumonkey 2y ago
  i kinda agree but in practice it stopped being an issue 25 years ago
  • troupo 2y ago
    It didn't stop being an issue 25 years ago. Python of course still has invisible issues like silent invalid identations in `if` clauses, for example. Well, you could fix those with copious amounts of tests, of course. Same goes for YAML where invalid identation can will still be easily valid YAML.
    • agumonkey 2y ago
      the honest amount of time I had syntactic issues with python in 10 years was 1.5 (my emacs removes whitespace between methods which made an admin unable to binpaste it directly on a remote machine) never once did we (and I have some bad apples at work) hit a problematic indentation in conditionals or other structs i'm honestly surprised
  • dartos 2y ago
    Yeah we’re just bike shedding here ;)