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0 pointselliotanderson13y ago0 comments

There's not doubt it is readable (I'm quite a fan of the language too) - the problem is with writing it as a novice. This post highlights some of the issues with magic and whitespace:

http://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-us...

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msutherl13y ago

I don't know, you would just never write "foo = bar->". It looks bad and it's wrong.

White-space sensitive languages are great because they reward you for writing with style, plus you don't have to worry about matching and aligning braces all the time.

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0 pointselliotanderson13y ago0 comments

There's not doubt it is readable (I'm quite a fan of the language too) - the problem is with writing it as a novice. This post highlights some of the issues with magic and whitespace:

http://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-better-for-discourse-to-us...

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msutherl13y ago

I don't know, you would just never write "foo = bar->". It looks bad and it's wrong.

White-space sensitive languages are great because they reward you for writing with style, plus you don't have to worry about matching and aligning braces all the time.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse