Whitespace delimiters suck

[Paul Prescod]

tye4 wrote:
> 
> I've used some stupid Unix shell languages which fail if I add whitespace:

Right. But that isn't Python. People come to Python's indentation with
an attitude like: "well I heard that a lot of Dutch people use drugs so
you must use drugs." "Make" uses whitespace in a manner that is "on
drugs". Python uses whitespace in a manner which is demonstrably,
testably and provably easy and scalable.

> Why is my question about whitespace raise so many eyebrows? This feature is
> commonplace.

Because the feature of whitespace insensitivity is so commonplace, we
all know about it so there is no need to describe it for us or act as if
we hadn't considered it. After all, Guido is a C programmer.

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