Zbyszek Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> added the comment:

On 09/25/2011 01:50 AM, Graylin Kim wrote:
>
> Graylin Kim<graylin....@gmail.com>  added the comment:
>
> I fully support taking blank line based line-wrapping approach and agree with 
> Zbyszek's suggested indentation approach as well. I am not sure why they 
> didn't occur to me at the time but they are certainly a more effective and 
> widely adopted approaches to the structured text problem.
>
> I suppose here is where I should volunteer to update the patch file...
>
>
> Re: Bike-shedding
>
>> dash '-' has special meaning in brackets:
>
> Good catch, I had intended on '-' being a valid list item character. It 
> clearly needs to be escaped. Not that it would matter given your proposed 
> alternative.
>
>>>   if(list_match):
>> Parenthesis unnecessary.
>
> In my defense I have the sadistic pleasure of coding in PHP where they are 
> necessary for 8 hours a day for my day job. I can only apologize profusely 
> for my offense and beg for forgiveness :)
>

:)

>>> lines = list()
>> Why not just 'lines = []'?
>
> Not to get off topic, but I happen to like list() and dict() instead of [] 
> and {} for empty collections. If there are non-religious reasons for avoiding 
> this practice I'll consider it. I don't want to invoke a holy war here, just 
> wondering if there are practical reasons.

In general brevity is good, but I agree that this is just a style 
question, and not very important here.

This wasn't my intention, I was only saying that due to this bug the 
wrapping uses fixed width, but I'm hoping that #13041 will be 
successfully resolved.

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