Re: Lark - A surface syntax for Common Lisp
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html