Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python

Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by gnaritas on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:15AM (#14916914)

> by switching to whitespace/geometry for syntactic structure and you suddenly have the dream language.

Nope, you've just made it awful, white-space with syntactic meaning is just god-awful. It's the worse thing about Python, there's a reason it's not a more popular language feature.

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Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by breck on Thursday August 03, 2017 @11:37AM (#14920487)

I actually agree.

Unless done perfectly, whitespace with syntactic meaning languages are quite annoying.

If I had a nickel for every time I had a tab vs space bug in Python when I was first starting to code.

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Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by kirbyfan64sos on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:13PM (#14933141)

Well, now Python 3 doesn't allow tabs anyway. ;)

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Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python by breck on Saturday August 05, 2017 @01:38PM (#14936833)

I got it excited when I read your comment, but turns out it still allows tabs, just not mixing. :(

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