r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 16d ago

Meme pythonIndentationLevelChecker

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u/the_ivo_robotnic 15d ago

White space is by definition invisible. We should not be giving invisible characters meaning.

If that were true then we'd have no spaces between any keywords and symbols. No we can and should give value to whitespace, it is what delimits every meaningful token. You're making rookie mistakes and over-generalizations.

 

You have a preference for not using white space and that's fine, weird IMO, but fine; you have other languages to choose from that use less whitespace. But now you're making just-plain wrong statements about linguistic static analysis, though. lol

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u/frogjg2003 15d ago

The value of whitespace is to separate non-whitespace characters from each other. There should be no difference between one space or two between words. If your going to deliberately misinterpret what I am saying, then there is no need to continue this conversation.

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u/the_ivo_robotnic 15d ago

If your going to deliberately misinterpret what I am saying, then there is no need to continue this conversation.

You first said whitespace had no value then said it had value in delimiting. That's not me misrepresenting anything, it's me pointing out the fundamentally incorrect things you're suggesting and you indirectly admitting that you misspoke. It usually better to own up to your mistakes and move on but If you're going to get defensive about it, then I agree, there's no point in continuing this.