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Most text editors have this understanding anyway. That's how they autoindent code or colour keywords and variables. Yeah I guess I'm just proposing a different common format but in the end I believe it to be slightly better since it solves a few problems.

No, I don't think this will ever happen and it would cause a lot of pain to transition to it. But I just think it's an interesting idea which could have worked had it been done like this from the beginning.



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What beginning? Back in the 1950s?

Use Go. It forces a consistent format.

Not sure what problem you propose solving.


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