On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 11:43:58 UTC, David wrote:
Stereotypes of people who never actually used it, other than
tried it
and gave up because they didn't configure their editor
correctly and
blaming python for it. I bet my last indentation error was more
than two
years ago.
Not a stereotype, sorry to disappoint you, I have used Python
quite a lot in my job (and still do). My point is, as soon as you
have to use a specialized editor and configure the editor to
format Python properly, there is something wrong, in my opinion.
A language shouldn't depend on indentation. Indentation is just a
means to an end (=readability) but not an end in itself. To make
it part of the syntax is over the top, if not neurotic. Everyone
in his or her right mind will use some kind of formatting anyway
and avoid spaghetti code. No need to enforce it. It should be up
to the programmer / team how to do this. But this is not a Python
forum, and I am quite happy with the C-style D offers.
