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Comment by Shoop

> The undocumented #? strongSpaces parsing mode has been removed.

I remember seeing lots of controversy over this feature a previous time Nim was posted here. Hopefully, its removal will stop people from dismissing the language outright (which would be a shame given all the things Nim has going for it).

(That being said, if people still want to embrace Wadler's Law [0], there's the hot-button topic of case/underscore insensitivity to talk about. [1])

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler%27s_Law [1] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Unofficial-FAQ#why-is-i...

parent Shoop 7 years ago

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