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Appreciate you responding so quickly!

I certainly understand the appeal of whitespace if you're coming from Python or Haskell etc. just wanted to point out that it might not be for everybody.

As for the web development focus, I would certainly understand not wanting to discuss topics in the book that you yourself are not that confident about.

Good luck with Nim going forward.

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I put off developing in Python for ages because I dislike significant whitespace. Eventually I was persuaded to give it a go. After developing in Python for some time now, I still dislike significant whitespace and the whole tab-space issue, but can learn to live with it.

I will likely give Nim a go, despite its significant whitespace and weird variable naming rules. In any case I continue to follow Nim and wish the project every success.

This tab-space is a non issue for actual python programmers, because anyone who has done programming in Python for any decent amount of time (say > 5 hours) would stick to using spaces. and learn how to configure their editor to make it a non issue.

Pretty much how, parens are not a concern for actual lisp programmers.

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