On 2006-12-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try reading again. In Lisp, you use () and *your editor* > automatically indents according to the universal standard, or > you leave it sloppy until other folks reading your code > convince you to get a proper programming editor. Indentation > does not get out of sync with semantics because the editor > virtually never misses parentheses that the Lisp compiler sees. > Expressions keep the same meaning even if you have to start > breaking them across lines, etc.
Yes, it's the same way in Python. Of course, not everything is an expression in Python, so it's not saying quite as much. > In Python, you group in your mind, and press indentation keys > to make it happen in your editor. The editor cannot help that > much, because it cannot read your mind. White space screwups in > copy-paste cannot be fixed by the editor automatically, because > it cannot read the original programmer's mind, and you have to > fix it manually, and risk screwing it up. It is very easy a manual process, possibly as simple as selecting the correct s-expr and pasting it into the right place in your code. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
