If braces were introduced I would switch to Haskell, I can't stand the noise. If you want to see a language that allows both whitespace, semi colons and braces take a look at it. Nails it. On Dec 10, 2011 9:31 AM, "Cedric Sodhi" <man...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 02:21:42PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <[1]man...@gmx.net> > wrote: > > > > IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD > BEEN > > DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN", THAT > "WHO > > DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR SOMETHING > > SIMILAR, JUST DON'T. > > > > Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request. > The > > correct response honoring this should have been deafening silence. > > > > For me, if I had to design a new language today, I would probably use > > braces, not because they're better than whitespace, but because pretty > > much every other lanugage uses them, and there are more interesting > > concepts to distinguish a new language. That said, I don't regret that > > Python uses indentation, and the rest I have to say about the topic > would > > violate the above request. > > > > I think this deserves a reply. Thank you for contributing your opinion > and respecting my request and therefore honoring the rules of a > civilized debate. > > -- Cedric > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/anacrolix%40gmail.com >
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