Language design

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-09-18, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
>> There's lots of poetry with significant indentation, though.
>> Imbuing the shape of the text on the page with significance is a
>> thing.
>
> And you can do that with C code, too. Doesn't mean that
> indentation is important to C; it means that you're layering
> different types of information into a single piece of work.
> It's like Perl code drawn in the shape of a camel - a beautiful
> hack.

I just meant you can't condense whitespace in a poem and retain
all its meaning. It will break certain kinds of quotation styles
in publications, as well.

-- 
Neil Cerutti