Syntax Flow, Unresolved Ideas - Suggestions Welcome about onyx-lang HOT 2 OPEN

if this-is a, if-cond => and-we-begin-a-body
   and-then indent
   then-what?

Syntax error. No other language AFAIK permits an if to have a trailing body and a nested body. It's unnecessary and ugly.

In any case, if it were to be allowed, then they should be different statements. The only time they should comprise a single call, is if the "arguments" are indented further than the start of the call:

if this-is a, if-cond => and-we-begin-a-body
                                         and-then indent
                                         then-what?

...which cannot be determined when using tabs for indentation, because the tab width might be anything.

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Hmm, maybe you're right: if there are two equally - more or less - viable solutions, then neither will be clear. That probably is a better approach.

And as for the last: as you say, cannot depend on "character counts" as representing width.

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