> Okay then, remove "assuage their doubts" and replace it with "pull the
> teeth of their arguments." It's hard to argue against something that's
> completely optional. You can say that syntactic indentation is worse
> than 'end' until you're blue in the face, but how do you say that
> having choices is worse than not having them?

Because it confuses. And having confusion about significance of
the whitespace in a programming language is a VERY bad thing
to have.

Regards,
Rimantas
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