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1 Apr 2025 17:18:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Curly braces replaced by indentations but only as an option ?  
From: Alain Martel
Date: 18 Mar 2025 14:22:15
Message: <67d9b9d7$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2025-03-18 à 04:01, Mr a écrit :
> I'm sure more expert people in various languages will be able to teach me
> something important from what is probably a naive question :  What if in POV 4
> we had the possibility to use spaces or tabs as a synonym to what curly braces
> currently do, but we could still use those braces themselves ?
>

That would be a pretty BAD idea. It'll make the code uselessly hard to 
understand, introduce a LOT of ambiguity. That can only lead to code 
that is nearly to totally impossible to debug.


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