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 way new comers would feel at first glance that the language is as easy to
learn as Python, and would rapidly understand as they do in Python, that what
matters is that they do know what scope they're in.

and eventually, depending on *whichever* option gets to become the most popular
among core developers and power users, it can become a maintenance cost
reduction to drop one or the other?

Inspiration for this idea? of course, python... I love how it has grown able to
do type annotations, switch cases, etc. and while across versions leverage many
advanced concepts teaching them to me as it went, and now they are there, I love
how a new comer could still pick it up exactly the way I did, with a human
readable almost fiction-book like syntax, and still produce scripts that do
work, syntactic-sugar-free.  BUT I know there must be a reason why those curly
braces are still there isn't there? so I trust people to tell me... maybe so
that POV acts as a launching pad to learn C-like languages in which it is itself
developed?

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