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Can you elaborate?

I write LiveScript and never had a problem with this.

I prefer lesser symbols on screen.

On the other hand, LS has syntactically significant whitespace which lets you indent wrapped stuff so the compiler sees that it still belongs to the previous command, in many cases.



Specifically in Python, if you're appending lines of text, for example, then you have to add a \ before the newline. Also in Javascript if you omit the semi-colon then sometimes the interpreter gets confused and functionality gets jumbled.

Sorry if that's not that specific. I just in general prefer semi-colons being required, because then it fails fast rather than producing subtle bugs later.




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