Feature migration

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 8 17:47:03 EST 2023


On 9/03/23 8:29 am, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> They seem to be partially copying from python a
> feature that now appears everywhere but yet strive for some backwards
> compatibility. They simplified the heck out of all kinds of expressions by
> using INDENTATION.

It's possible this was at least parttly inspired by functional languages
such as Haskell. Haskell has always allowed indentation as one way of
expressing structure. Python wasn't the first language to use
indentation semantically.

-- 
Greg


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