On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:02:40PM -0800, Tom wrote: > If whitespace mistakes are always caught at compile-time, then I > probably wouldn't care about them either. So I'm not bashing python; > having never used it: I'm bashing languages where syntatic mistakes > are not caught at compile-time. I have no idea if Python is in that > category or not.
Python does catch inconsistent indenting at compile time. If you want to catch mixed tabs/spaces for block indenting, run python with -tt. As Stephen clarified earlier, Python uses significant indentation, not significant whitespace. Variables and objects are not defined by whitespace, the nested scope of logical blocks are. -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
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