On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:46:15AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Significant whitespace? Shudder, that brings back crusty old > Tom> memories of Fortran. I have great fondness for fortran because of > Tom> the wonderful mathematical algorithms in LinPack, but I have no > Tom> fondness for significant whitespace. > > Please actually try to code something in Python before commenting on its use > of spaces. It is unlike the times of Fortran: in Fortran spaces are used to > make programs easy to read by machines; in Python spaces are used to make > programs easy to read by human.
then why are they significant? -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
