Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Thats not what I’m talking about.

    python is one of the few popular languages where presentation is semantic but I’m talking about separating semantics from presentation. you should be able to radically change how you see the code without actually changing the file.

    I should be able to apply a personal style to the code and view it with small indentations, or large indentations, with line widths of 80char or 120char, function args within parentheses or not. I should even be able to localize it into another natural language, or even view and edit it as a flow chart instead of text, all without actually changing the underlying file that contains the semantics.