sqlserver2008

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by sqlserver2008 2mo ago
Sure but even with no code indentation at all, an auto-formatter can easily indent everything for you because of the braces. If you have poorly indented code in a language like Python, you're on the hook for indenting everything yourse
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by sqlserver2008 4y ago
>first example is a syntax error The code runs so it's most definitely not a syntax error. May be against PEP styling rules, but it is valid Python code. >which must be fixed, and takes a second. And that was my earlier point. Th
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by sqlserver2008 4y ago
>Two ways to delimit blocks is redundant. It isn't redundant though because without delimiting symbols for a code block you lose the ability to have your code autoformatted in certain situations. Here's a trivial example to ill
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by sqlserver2008 4y ago
Was it this review? https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry... This also lines up with my anecdotal experience, and the best boring food I've ever found were potatoes. I used to avoi
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by sqlserver2008 4y ago
> OCaml isn't indentation sensitive, so doesn't suffer from this True, I was just making the point that the lightweight syntax of indentation-sensitive languages like Python can be problematic. I don't know how OCaml is ab
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by sqlserver2008 4y ago
Indentation-sensitive syntax is totally obsolete in a world with autoformatters. In addition, with this kind of syntax you also lose the ability to have your code autoformatted in certain situations. Here's a trivial example to illustr