"invisible" syntax is precisely want I don't want. That's practically the definition of a bug!
I know I set myself up for the last line. I can only say I've really made a good faith effort to try to understand the explanations for braces, and none make any sense to me. I've had nearly ten years writing more or less python alongside braced languages (I agree it's not a massive pain), and outside of the REPL - I have literally never seen an IndentationError (err.. that's the same as "doesn't run" to me), or "hard to diagnose bugs". Almost never a TypeError, either. Maybe a dozen or so?
I need to understand, from source code, how the instructions flow. For that, I and essentially all other humans need indentation. I never want the machine to interpret the instruction flow differently to me. I genuinely cannot understand how someone can fail to produce python code to that standard. I trivially can in any language which includes syntax specifically for giving a machine a separate understanding of program flow to humans.
I know I set myself up for the last line. I can only say I've really made a good faith effort to try to understand the explanations for braces, and none make any sense to me. I've had nearly ten years writing more or less python alongside braced languages (I agree it's not a massive pain), and outside of the REPL - I have literally never seen an IndentationError (err.. that's the same as "doesn't run" to me), or "hard to diagnose bugs". Almost never a TypeError, either. Maybe a dozen or so?
I need to understand, from source code, how the instructions flow. For that, I and essentially all other humans need indentation. I never want the machine to interpret the instruction flow differently to me. I genuinely cannot understand how someone can fail to produce python code to that standard. I trivially can in any language which includes syntax specifically for giving a machine a separate understanding of program flow to humans.