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If white space carries any function that the compiler/interpreter needs to know about like structure or scope, it's probably not a very good programming language.
How do you feel about line breaks?
Not who you asked but I think they’re important for humans, but syntactically I don’t think they should matter.
It should be ok to add a line break wherever it makes the code more readable, but I don’t think a compiler should care whether some code is all on one line or 10