Luckily to the extrem good typesystem and focus on functional programming, a lot of issues with significant whitespace are only annoying but not dangerous in Scala.
For instance, in my code base a syntax like
if (x > 0)
foo(x)
bar(x)
is always a bug and will essentially never compile. Because if-expressions always return and their result is used.
val result = if (x > 0)
foo(x)
bar(x)
This will overall just result in a compile error.
Still, it can be annoying especially when using c&p or dealing with legacy code / java code where everything is a string. Therefore I also don't think it's really worth it.
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For instance, in my code base a syntax like
is always a bug and will essentially never compile. Because if-expressions always return and their result is used. This will overall just result in a compile error.Still, it can be annoying especially when using c&p or dealing with legacy code / java code where everything is a string. Therefore I also don't think it's really worth it.