Jon Pretty

Not if I read it correctly, it could be easily reversed upon some triggers such as code merge.

you mean converting it to the older syntax? I suspect it won’t take long to find ambiguous examples when mixing semicolon inferences and significant indentation

Yes, I read the whole thing and the example. It's marked as an exploration that would be stupid to dismiss without trying out, so not likely to appear before at least two release cycles, if ever.

I understand, but notice that losing tooling support is not “personal taste”, it’s a thing that will simply happen when the syntax changes so drastically. Is it really worth it to rewrite a formatter from scratch for trying out that syntax? I don’t think so.

Wouldn't a formatter be redundant? ;)

Exactly what I thought, if spacing is significant then by definition code is broken when spacing isn't right. This is really about being opinionated about style by design

That’s why python doesn’t have a formatter. Oh wait!

Formatter would get a new job to do. It may well come to nothing. But then someone could fork the idea, spend a weekend tinkering and change everybody's way of thinking for good. Who knows.