On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> I am also nervous about
>> languages where whitespace is significant ;-).
>
>I was also very sceptical about indendation as syntactical grouping, but
>after some use it comes very natural. My only problem is that you can
>not just comment out a surrounding if. I find the 'copying by sharing'
>more difficult to work with. But in retrospect I am very uneasy about
>having programmed a lot in a language which syntax I still don't fully
>understand....

Err, I have similar feelings about perl ... especially since its syntax is
a moving target.

Peter

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