Re: Lark - A surface syntax for Common Lisp

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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On 15 Feb 2026, at 22:50, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> But I do note that Python and Haskell both seem to use whitespace as something of significance. And now Rhombus. 
> 
> Have you never lost your indentation due to text editors compressing runs of spaces into tab characters? Or was that just the early days of Emacs?

I wrote Python for my living for several years.  There are many things I hate about it, but the significant whitespace turns out to be a non-issue in practice.

--tim

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