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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by marcosdumay on Saturday September 22, 2018 @01:35PM (#18046950)
> you have to set your text editor to make those invisible characters visible

Or you set it to replace one with the other, and not bother you.

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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by krapp on Saturday September 22, 2018 @03:01PM (#18047445)
Still more work than just using braces.
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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by BeetleB on Saturday September 22, 2018 @04:57PM (#18047954)
>Still more work than just using braces.

How so? It's a one time change to a setting in your editor, vs thousands and thousands of keystrokes.

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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by krapp on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:26PM (#18048535)
I don't have to change anything in my editor all to use braces, I can just use them.

No extra work is less work than even a little.

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