Whitespace-Ingoring languages

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Published on 2010-04-19T14:14:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 14:33 UTC
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People (here on SO) often talk about their dislike of languages which don't ignore whitespace.

My question is: Which programming languages ignore whitespace?

Examples:

C++

co n    st my  Var with spaces = 1  23;

-> Error

PHP

$this willnot work =   456;

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