• Subverb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m an embedded systems C programmer with passing familiarity with Python. To me it seems ridiculous that a language relies on whitespace for blocking. Is that true?

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      1 year ago

      It only requires consistent indentation inside blocks, which is what any good code does anyway for readability. So the main difference then is just that you no longer need the redundant curly braces.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, unfortunately. There is a lot of tooling around it but it still feels bizarre after years of using it.

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        1 year ago

        I’m anal about curly braces in C. I never code without them because I don’t like being ambiguous.

        I never do

        if(i=0) return 0;

        or worse

        if(i=0) return 0;

        I do

        if(i=0) { return(0); }