The first reply pretty much nails it: "where is the patch?"

There's a huge difference between going to a mailing list and asking for (unpopular) features and going ahead and implementing it. Provide a patch, along with test cases and practical use case examples and you're making a point. Abstract rambling with 0 lines of code examples is worthless.

What comes to the actual issue: I'm a huge fan of layout based syntax but I do hate writing white space sensitive parsers. I think Haskell's way of having curlies and semicolons in the core syntax and adding layout as a sugar coating hits a particular sweet spot.