Bad

Bad ideas

Writing ugly code should be discouraged systematically:

• by making dangerous and ambiguous constructs ugly.
• by giving compiler warnings
• by giving compiler hints of how to transform bad code into good code

The following ideas for the Angle language need some serious reconsideration:

Overuse of significant whitespace

ambiguity in braceless function calls:

fibonacci number = if number<2 : 0 else fibonacci number-1 + fibonacci number-2 Could easily be a read as (fibonacci number)-1, resulting in infinite recursion :(