Ditch the colon too. Also you're a troll. On Dec 10, 2011 9:58 AM, "Cedric Sodhi" <man...@gmx.net> wrote:
> I reply to your contribution mainly because I see another, valid > argument hidden in what you formulated as an opinion: > > Readability would be reduced by such "noise". To anticipate other people > agreeing with that, let me say, that it would be exactly one more > character, and the same amount of key presses. All that, assuming you > use editor automatisms, which particularly the advocates of WSB tend to > bring forth in defense of WSB and aforementioned problems associated > with it. > > Only one more character and not more key presses? Yes, instead of > opening a block with a colon, you open it with an opening bracket. And > you close it with a closing one. > > Referring to "noise", I take it you are preferring naturally expressed > languages (what Roff's PIC, for example, exemplifies to banality). > > How is a COLON, which, in natural language, PUNCTUATES a context, any > more suited than braces, which naturally ENCLOSE a structure? > > Obviously, it by far is not, even from the standpoint of not > intersparsing readable code with unnatural characters. > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 09:40:54AM +1100, Matt Joiner wrote: > > 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" <[1]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][2]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 > > [3]Python-Dev@python.org > > [4]http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > Unsubscribe: > > [5] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/anacrolix%40gmail.com > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. mailto:man...@gmx.net > > 2. mailto:man...@gmx.net > > 3. mailto:Python-Dev@python.org > > 4. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > 5. > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/anacrolix%40gmail.com >
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