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In perl you can write 'if(!bool) { ... }', 'unless(bool) { ... }', or even '... if(!bool)'

As I said, I'm not an expert in the languages in question, but the scope of code formatting flexibility is larger than just whitespace.

In Python you can do the same: 'if not bool: ...', 'while bool: ...', '[for ... if not bool]'. Crazy one-liners are also possible.

We have just enough formatting flexibility and we prefer readability.