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Zikes on March 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Hiring Post

Just imagine if it were a whitespace sensitive language like Coffeescript.

"Newline. Tab. Tab. Tab. Tab."

joshrotenberg on March 6, 2015 | [–]

Heh. "Wait, was that 'Tab. Tab. Tab.' or 'Tab. Tab. Tab. Tab.'?"

A Lisp would be nasty, too. "... Close paren. Close paren. Close paren. Close paren. ..."

rhizome on March 7, 2015 | [–]

"newline, indent one tab beyond the previous line."

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