BCS wrote:
Hello bearophile,BCS:- it allows long code lines to be foldedThis is not a problem, when you have optional semicolons, you add some syntax to fold long lines. Python uses \ Mathematica uses \\ and so on. Languages like Scala, Boo, Genie, etc seem able to survive.The only one of those in common use is Python and its not a good date point because of all the other whitespace stuff it does (it's in a category all its own).
Ruby?
Also line continuation Is just ugly. (And before you ask, no, I don't think semicolons are ugly)I think both semicolons and line continuation are ugly. However, when you have mandatory semicolons they are *everywhere*. OTOH line continuations are very rare, especially since in Python they are only needed in case of ambiguity so you can write:
some_long_function_name (some_long_argument_name,
some_other_long_argument_name)
Jerome
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