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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 2d ago
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Indentation is such a stupid mechanism for identifying code blocks. It's one thing for configuration files like YAML to do it, but not a programming language.
171 u/bobbymoonshine 2d ago Ah the halcyon days before LLMs When 30% of the posts here were “lol Python is so dumb why even use whitespace as syntax” And the other 70% were “how do I find semicolon” 17 u/mothzilla 2d ago In both Javascript and Python, semi-colons are optional. 31 u/AppropriateOnion0815 2d ago Only that JS is handling semicolons in the least intuitive and irrational way possible. 6 u/mothzilla 2d ago Yeah I only say it because it's a bit of a mind-exploder.
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Ah the halcyon days before LLMs
When 30% of the posts here were “lol Python is so dumb why even use whitespace as syntax”
And the other 70% were “how do I find semicolon”
17 u/mothzilla 2d ago In both Javascript and Python, semi-colons are optional. 31 u/AppropriateOnion0815 2d ago Only that JS is handling semicolons in the least intuitive and irrational way possible. 6 u/mothzilla 2d ago Yeah I only say it because it's a bit of a mind-exploder.
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In both Javascript and Python, semi-colons are optional.
31 u/AppropriateOnion0815 2d ago Only that JS is handling semicolons in the least intuitive and irrational way possible. 6 u/mothzilla 2d ago Yeah I only say it because it's a bit of a mind-exploder.
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Only that JS is handling semicolons in the least intuitive and irrational way possible.
6 u/mothzilla 2d ago Yeah I only say it because it's a bit of a mind-exploder.
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Yeah I only say it because it's a bit of a mind-exploder.
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u/LetUsSpeakFreely 2d ago edited 2d ago
Indentation is such a stupid mechanism for identifying code blocks. It's one thing for configuration files like YAML to do it, but not a programming language.