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So maybe we should shut up and accept that Python Is, After All, Doing The Right Thing?

No. If your attitude is that "Noone should keep on critizising my language of choice!", then maybe you should search for another language.

There is a distinct difference between visualizing the semantics through indentation (and to some degree braces), and to assign semantics to the intentation in itself. If you think assigning semantics to use of whitespace, you should take a look at the Whitespace language. There you can get everything you want in that direction!

Whitespace semantics is crazy, judged from a readability and reliability point of view. Nothing related to indentation has any semantics in the C class of languages, so pretending that they are similar is a complete misunderstanding.

A week or two ago, someone posted an April 1st proposal from Bjarne Strostrup (I am assuming that it really was written by him), a proposal about extending the operatior definitinions of C++, to allow operators to be defined for whitespace. He goes on to propose operator definitions for lack of whitespace. Sometimes, I suspect that Python addicts never noticed the publication date.

(I did save Strostrup's proposal, but not the link. I might be able to dit it up from my browsing history, if anyone insists.)
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