Re: Lark - A surface syntax for Common Lisp
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
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> On 16 Feb 2026, at 13:32, Greg Menke (as gregm32768 at comcast dot net) <[email protected]> wrote: > > But how can an editor handle substantial levels of nesting cleanly? It is ever so easy to add/delete a space even by accident and then things get ambiguous. Even if that were true which in my experience it is not when using any slightly competent editor, it is surprisingly hard for this to happen in Python for instance. You can only increase indentation where the syntax allows it, and then it is not optional to do so. Assuming you use n-space indentation steps then a line which is outdented by 1 to n-1 spaces from its expected indentation is a syntax error. You are not allowed to use any mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation which depends on the width of a tab, which in effect outlaws any indentation scheme which is not either pure tabs or pure spaces. The people who may find this hard are those who use single-space indent steps. OK. --tim