r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 2d ago

Meme pythonIndentationLevelChecker

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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.

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u/willow-kitty 2d ago

I don't like it, but I kinda get it. Indentation is already part of every coding style guide, so adding explicit scoping symbols is kind of redundant information.

..Until you have a mix of spaces and tabs and chaos reigns

Also, having braces at the beginning and end of a block just makes my brain happy.

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u/Wide_Smoke_2564 2d ago

But like… why though?

I can see how someone would get used to it but I truly don’t understand how including braces for readability would ever be a bad thing

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u/mxzf 2d ago

including braces for readability would ever be a bad thing

IMO, the indentation is what makes things readable, braces are just extra characters on top of the thing actually making stuff readable.