11 May
2018
11 May
'18
3:44 p.m.
2018-05-11 11:56 GMT+02:00 João Santos
Optimizing syntax for space makes sense for "mathematical" notation since it's commonly written by hand, but putting space above readability in a programming language design feels like a skewmorphism.
You are assuming "given" to improve readability, where I stated ":= is perfectly clear ", at least in my opinion. Therefore, since clarity is already achieved, the rest is clutter that reduces readability.