On Sun, February 4, 2007 5:28 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> The one gripe I do have about Python whitespace is that automated tools > have no way of knowing when it ends. That causes me more than a little > grief sometimes. I'm not sure what you mean by this. The Python interpreter/parser is an 'automated tool' and it is able to figure out the exact meaning of Python code. > Personally, though, I like the fact that the indentation style is > specified. It means that every piece of code is indented exactly the > same way. Given that code should be written for humans to read, that's > a good thing. > > However, I'm sure that if you used braces and mandated indentation, > people would gripe about that too. This is why we have multiple > programming languages. Awww, you mean properly indented Lisp code *still* wouldn't make all the XML whiners happy? sheesh. I give up. :) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
