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		jtc331 on Dec 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant /Counting/ delimiters isn't necessarily any easier for our brains than measuring indentation. However, it is (at least for me) much easier for your eyes to line up two delimiters then a keyword/function call/literal/whatever and the end of the block it introduced when that block's termination is implicit from indentation. With the delimiters, I have two similar things to line up visually. With indentation-significant, I have to line up a delimiter with blank space, which is difficult.

extension on Dec 1, 2011 [–]

You're lining up the statement that opened the block with the statement that comes after the block. Should be easy.

And in the most common code style, delimiters don't line up anyway, because the opening delimiter is at the end of the line.

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