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I know there are people that are used to the indention based scope but that has a real problem when it comes to copy/pasting code. I think a alternative that st
by bobajeff 4mo ago
I know there are people that are used to the indention based scope but that has a real problem when it comes to copy/pasting code. I think a alternative that still looks pretty clean is to do like Ruby and Julia and have the function/class imply begin and have a literal 'end'.
- xigoi 4mo agoIf your editor messes up indentation when copy-pasting, you need a better editor.
- Narishma 4mo agoYou paste code in more places than just your editor.
- mohragk 4mo agoFun fact, in Python, the indentation is checked per block. So, in the outer block, indentation can be 2 spaces, while in the inner block, the indentation is 3 spaces. The only prerequisite is that the indentation in the block is the same. This, to circumvent copy/paste issues.
- nchammas 4mo agoI don't understand this concern. How exactly are you copy/pasting code such that significant indentation causes "real problems"? I remember the creators of Go explained [1] that they chose explicit block delimiters because of problems they saw when embedding snippets of Python in other languages. But this seems like a very niche kind of problem. [1]: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#:~:text=we%20have%20had%20extensive%20experience%20tracking%20down%20build%20and%20test%20failures%20caused%20by%20cross%2Dlanguage%20builds%20where%20a%20Python%20snippet%20embedded%20in%20another%20language https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#:~:text=we%20have%2...
- bobajeff 4mo agoScope being determined by indention makes it easier to paste things in the wrong scope and not notice.