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Bitten By Significant Whitespace
- lutusp 14y agoA combination of syntactically significant whitespace, and inconsistent use of tabs in source files, are two reasons why programmers often can't understand their own code. I write a lot of Python and I think it's a terrific language, but its use of syntactically significant whitespace is most definitely not in the plus column. The goal of significant whitespace is to save programming time and increase source readability. But the result is often the exact opposite.