<p>If braces were introduced I would switch to Haskell, I can't stand the noise. If you want to see a language that allows both whitespace, semi colons and braces take a look at it. Nails it. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2011 9:31 AM, "Cedric Sodhi" <<a href="mailto:manday@gmx.net">manday@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 02:21:42PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <[1]<a href="mailto:manday@gmx.net">manday@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD BEEN<br>
> DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN", THAT "WHO<br>
> DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR SOMETHING<br>
> SIMILAR, JUST DON'T.<br>
><br>
> Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request. The<br>
> correct response honoring this should have been deafening silence.<br>
><br>
> For me, if I had to design a new language today, I would probably use<br>
> braces, not because they're better than whitespace, but because pretty<br>
> much every other lanugage uses them, and there are more interesting<br>
> concepts to distinguish a new language. That said, I don't regret that<br>
> Python uses indentation, and the rest I have to say about the topic would<br>
> violate the above request.<br>
><br>
<br>
I think this deserves a reply. Thank you for contributing your opinion<br>
and respecting my request and therefore honoring the rules of a<br>
civilized debate.<br>
<br>
-- Cedric<br>
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