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This looks really error-prone to me. Have you looked at previous attempts, such as SPECS? http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html
by porges 12y ago
This looks really error-prone to me.
Have you looked at previous attempts, such as SPECS? http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProp...
- SupremumLimit 12y agoAny specific reasons why it's error-prone? I've just seen someone post a link to SPECS in the comments to the post - it's interesting but takes a very different direction. I wanted the code to remain recognisably C++.
- kcbanner 12y agoAny python developer will tell you they have accidentally indented or un-indented some code, and that error took hours to find
- SupremumLimit 12y agoWell I've written quite a bit of CoffeeScript, and while I had a few issues with incorrect code translation to JavaScript, I don't recall ever having problems with mis-indented code.
- pseudonom- 12y agoAs another point to triangulate from, Haskell is also whitespace-sensitive and I have never had a non-trivial whitespace error in it.
- 3d7718844 12y agoI've been programming in Python for 4 years and I've never spent hours trying to find an indentation error. It comes up, sure, but no more frequently than any other syntax error in a different language and there are usually dead giveaways indicating what happened. Most IDEs/editors have options to view whitespace characters, so if you're worried about encountering a bug from this you can always enable that feature. It's really a non-issue.
- Walkman 12y agototally agree with you
- Pitarou 12y agoThis one won't.