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Re:Python with Braces by kazinator on Monday July 08, 2024 @06:15PM (#40910338)
If we primarily relied on a whitespace representation of numbers, it would help to have digits there for the machine to look at and possibly diagnose against the whitespace.
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Re:Python with Braces by necovek on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @12:53PM (#40918226)
(Almost) Every programmer in the world depends on whitespace to understand code: are you claiming that's not true?

If humans can do it, why wouldn't computer programs like interpreters do it?

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