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Re:Nim 1.6 by hajile on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:07PM (#28920526)
If I don't add a brace, I'll get an immediate error that something doesn't add up.

If I mess up indentation, the program will carry on as if nothing had happened.

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Re:Nim 1.6 by b3morales on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:44PM (#28921077)
This is not really true in practice. It is the same thing as accidentally moving a line across a brace in a brace-delimited language.

The incorrectly-indented line will generally blow up at runtime or fail to compile, because it's in the wrong scope.

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Re:Nim 1.6 by xigoi on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @06:35PM (#28924615)
If you misplace a brace (which is the true equivalent of messing up indentation), the program will also carry on.
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