You could also treat 也 as ; in some other language syntaxes (eg. ruby), so newline could be semi-synonymous, so the use of 也 becomes superfluous unless you are writing one liners. So that's down further to 6 characters. Even if 'f mandelbrot(width,height' was used in an autocompletion IDE, the traditional syntax weighs in at 24 characters or 4x.