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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 21 points 22 hours ago (22 children)

FORTRAN isn't a beauty either.
And Python is strange as hell with its mandatory tabs.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 20 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

You can use spaces in Python.

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

Two, three or four spaces? If you answer wrong I'll never forgive you

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 15 points 20 hours ago

Whatever your place defines as a standard. I’ve seen ugly code in C, JavaScript, Java, etc., that uses them all over the place because they’re not mandatory.

If you don’t have consistent indenting, your code looks like copy/paste from several sources; but if you do have consistent indenting, then the indenting of Python is a non-issue.

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