Re:Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe owners...
by kazinator on Sunday February 22, 2026 @08:49PM
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If they were perfectly aligned, you could easily parse 128 levels of parentheses without any line breaks or indentation.
Every rule for inferring a hiddnen, implicit structure within a sequence of tokens makes things harder, even on the scale of just a few tokens in one line within an indented structure.
Yes definitely to some extent, but they aren't perfectly aligned. Most languages make things a bit harder to parse for machines but easier for humans. Some get it wrong (e.g. I would say OCaml is hard to parse for humans, and some of C's syntax too like the mental type declaration syntax). I don't think you could say that e.g. Dart is harder to parse for humans than Lisp, even though it's clearly harder for machines.