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wting on March 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang

It's hilarious to see someone add semantic whitespace to Go, which seems to be the opposite of Python With Braces[0].

I'm in the whitespace > braces camp, but mandatory braces help with the dangling else problem and makes it easier for the parser.

[0] http://www.pythonb.org/

CatMtKing on March 21, 2014 [–]

I'm unfamiliar with this dangling else problem. I googled it and I don't see how it could be a problem with significant whitespace.

I can understand making it faster for the parser, though.

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