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Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by njharman on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:45PM (#19479406)
Whitespace is not any more significant in Python than most languages.

Indentation is significant.

Just replace '(' with space/tab and ')' with "deindent". Done.

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Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016) by coliveira on Sunday March 24, 2019 @08:38PM (#19479568)
Have you done indentation with anything else other than whitespace?

I prefer to let this idea of required indentation to FORTRAN.

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