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hot take: spaces vs tabs is silly
we need indent/deindent characters for when your indentation level changes, not ridiculous whitespace hacks
I'm realizing I might actually feel strongly about this
using tabs and spaces for indentation is like reversing the characters in an RTL dialect -- it's a hack, and doesn't actually describe the semantic that you want
I will take this to the supreme court
@christianbundy sexps are basically this, except the indent and deindent characters are visible.
@christianbundy AST editors
broke:
if True:
<tab>print("hello")
<tab>print("world)
woke:
if True:
<indent>print("hello")
print("world")