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i don't mind as long as it's simple and regular (python is ok for instance)


Personally, I think using invisible, editor dependent characters is neither simple nor regular.


i kinda agree but in practice it stopped being an issue 25 years ago


It didn't stop being an issue 25 years ago.

Python of course still has invisible issues like silent invalid identations in `if` clauses, for example. Well, you could fix those with copious amounts of tests, of course.

Same goes for YAML where invalid identation can will still be easily valid YAML.


the honest amount of time I had syntactic issues with python in 10 years was 1.5 (my emacs removes whitespace between methods which made an admin unable to binpaste it directly on a remote machine)

never once did we (and I have some bad apples at work) hit a problematic indentation in conditionals or other structs

i'm honestly surprised


Yeah we’re just bike shedding here ;)




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