On 9/03/23 8:29 am, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
They seem to be partially copying from python a feature that now appears everywhere but yet strive for some backwards compatibility. They simplified the heck out of all kinds of expressions by using INDENTATION.
It's possible this was at least parttly inspired by functional languages such as Haskell. Haskell has always allowed indentation as one way of expressing structure. Python wasn't the first language to use indentation semantically. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list